It's a chain gang movie with a miscast Pat O'Brien in the lead. Grim. Very grim. The big set-piece involves hanging four men. Also, the editing for story is as botched as you can imagine, as the whole thing wraps up with a happy ending in fifteen seconds when you're expecting more story.
It's like the suits said sorry, folks, this is not a John Stahl picture, so we're capping it at 70 minutes and sticking on a happy ending. Clarence Muse steals the picture, as he so often did. It makes I WAS A PRISONER FROM A CHAIN GANG seem like a comedy for most of its length. Glad I saw it, but I never want to see any of it again.
It's like the suits said sorry, folks, this is not a John Stahl picture, so we're capping it at 70 minutes and sticking on a happy ending. Clarence Muse steals the picture, as he so often did. It makes I WAS A PRISONER FROM A CHAIN GANG seem like a comedy for most of its length. Glad I saw it, but I never want to see any of it again.