Black Fury (1935)
[4] Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Life of Emile Zola) stars as an immigrant coal worker who unwittingly finds himself a union representative in a volatile dispute with the mine owners. When the owners…
Scarface (1932)
[6] Paul Muni plays a thinly-veiled version of Al Capone in Howard Hawks' Scarface, a grim, violent gangster flick that was pretty controversial for its time. The lack of bloodshed keeps it tame by today's standards, but myriad onscreen deaths…
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
[7] Paul Muni stars as Emile Zola, the famous French author whose critical writings brought the scorn of the French government, especially when he came out in support of a wrongfully-condemned army officer. The first half of this film, directed…
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
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A man is wrongly convicted and sentenced to a brutal chain gang in this gripping tragedy from Mervyn LeRoy (The Wizard of Oz). Paul Muni (Scarface, Life of Emile Zola) stars as the innocent prisoner who succeeds in a daring escape and becomes a well-respected member of society before the law catches up with him. State extradition laws offer him some sanctuary, but Muni is tricked into voluntarily returning to the labor camp with the hope of wiping his record clean. Once there, all hope of a promised pardon vanishes and he’s forced to plot his second deadly escape.