Article: CRIMINALS AND AUTHORS.(Perspective)

Byline: Dan Lynch

I flipped on the TV set not long ago and got interested in this movie on HBO before I realized what it was.

It turned out to be a film about the guy who inspired the old Paul Muni film "I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang." I remembered seeing the old Muni film on TV when I was a kid, but I'd never realized it was based on a true story.

It seems that this World War I veteran, a guy named Vincent Godfrey Burns, got involved in a small-time stickup in Georgia after the war, when nobody could find work. He was sent to a chain gang to serve his time. Conditions were inhuman, so he escaped, made his way to Chicago, got married and ...

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