
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang(1932)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.



Rochelle Hudson
Betty Andrews

Frieda Inescort
Attorney Mary Ellis

June Lang
Georgia Mason aka The Duchess

Lola Lane
Hazel Wren

Glenn Ford
Jim Brent (Reporter)

Iris Meredith
Nita Lavore

Lorna Gray
Frankie Mason

Esther Dale
Chief Matron Brackett

William Farnum
Commissioner McNeill
Mary Field
Gracie Dunn
Convicted Woman is a crime, drama film released in 1940 exploring themes of suicide, social worker, women's prison, b movie, wrongful conviction, prison reform. Directed by Nick Grindé, it stars Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang. A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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