Few films have affected the way laws are dispensed but this hard-hitting expose of chain gangs based on a true story made law makers look again at the cruelty of such places. Paul Muni gave his greatest ever performance as the hero betrayed by the system who ends up with no way out but a life of crime. It is grim but spell-binding stuff which still packs a punch. 

The model for the film was Robert E Burns who was still a fugitive from justice when he collaborated on the screenplay.

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