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«Я — беглый каторжник» (англ. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) — остросюжетный фильм... 1932.

Создан в эпоху до кодекса Хейса. Описывал радости жизни после побега. Как и при кровавом режиме ("закон о колосках"), за кражу овощей стоимостью в 5 долларов и 81 (!) цента в дем. Штатах можно было запросто схлопотать 10 лет каторги.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is an American pre-Code crime-drama film

Докодексовый Голливуд — период в американской киноиндустрии между появлением звукового кино в конце 1920-х годов[1] и введением в действие кинопроизводственного кодекса (или кодекса Хейса).

Хотя кодекс был принят в 1930 году, до 1 июля 1934 года его соблюдение было необязательным. Большинство режиссёров во время съёмок не принимали его во внимание. Прокат фильмов в 1930—1934 гг. ограничивал не столько сам кодекс, сколько законы отдельных штатов, закулисные переговоры с ревнителями общественной нравственности и общественное мнение.

Фильмы конца 1920-х — начала 1930-х годов могли содержать всё то, что стало немыслимым после 1934 года, — откровенные эротические намёки, межрасовые и однополые связи, ненормативную лексику, незаконное употребление наркотиков, промискуитет, проституцию, супружеские измены, упоминания об абортах и жёсткие сцены насилия.
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Robert Elliott Burns (May 10, 1892 – June 5, 1955) was a World War I veteran who gained notoriety after escaping from a Georgia chain gang and writing his memoirs, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, exposing the cruelty and injustice of the chain gang system.[1]
Robert Burns was born in Palisades, New Jersey. In 1912, he had left his family and drifted throughout the United States as a laborer.[2] Two days after the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, he enlisted in the Army as a medic. As a medic, Burns was present for many of America's major engagements in World War I including the Battle of Chateau-Thierry and the Battle of Saint-Mihiel.[3] Upon his return from Europe, he suffered deeply from what his brother, Vincent Burns, deemed "a typical shell-shock case."[4] His deteriorating psychological condition coupled with his inability to recover his pre-war job, or the wages he was earning, caused Burns to become a drifter once again.

Burns eventually ended up in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1921. It was in Atlanta that Burns was tricked into participating in a robbery of a grocery store which netted the participants a total of $5.81. For this crime, Burns was sentenced to six to 10 years of hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. In 1921, since Georgia did not have a state prison, Burns was sentenced to a different kind of prison system: convict leasing. As a member of Georgia's convict lease system, Burns was forced to complete back-breaking labor for the profit of the state. As a prisoner of the convict lease system, Burns was forced to endure the most inhumane of conditions: endless labor, inadequate shelter, constant beatings, and insufficient food.
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