Sentences with phrase «from chain gangs»

The opening shot shows three prisoners escaping from a chain gang.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a picture with guts.

Their partnership, formed after Schultz rescues Django from a chain gang (and takes him under his wing) reprises other ebony - and - ivory unions in the Tarantino canon, especially Pulp Fiction's Jules and Vincent, to whom this affectionately odd couple is a historical antecedent; they're proto - hitmen, moseying across America picking up bounties on even badder guys.

A charmingly verbose stranger purporting to be a dentist, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), liberates a slave, Django (Jamie Foxx) from a chain gang run by the Speck brothers, Ace (James Remar) and Dicky (James Russo).

Cavalcade beat out nine other nominees for Best Picture, including 42nd Street, well - known adaptations of A Farewell to Arms and Little Women, the non-musical version of State Fair, the Paul Muni crime drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, and Frank Capra's Lady for a Day.

8:00 pm — TCM — I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man who struggles to find a job during the Depression.

Wednesday, August 6: Paul Muni Day 8 p.m. (5 p.m.): «I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang» (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932).

«Three guys chained together, that's a kind of a genre and we just tried to picture three dogs chained together, escaping from the chain gang,» he said.

Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 5.

7:30 am — TCM — I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man who struggles to find a job during the Depression.

Except he's still shackled to his own chain - mates from the chain gang — bad - tempered Pete (John Turturro), and sweet, dimwitted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson).

1:30 am (5th)-- TCM — I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man who struggles to find a job during the Depression.

Frank Lloyd's upstairs - downstairs domestic drama rose above competition that included the Ernest Hemingway adaptation A Farewell to Arms starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes, Alexander Korda's history - stretching biography The Private Life of Henry VIII, George Cukor's sentimental Little Women and Mervyn LeRoy's stark crime drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

George Clooney comes on like a goofball Clark Gable as the fast - talking but slow - witted convict Everett, a greasy con - man who escapes from a chain gang, dragging along a couple of dim bulbs (a tetchy John Turturro and a sweetly stupid Tim Blake Nelson, both of whom spend much of the film with mouths agape and eyes glazed over).

Clooney is perfectly cast as Everett Ulysses McGill, a somewhat vainglorious Mississippi charmer who breaks from a chain gang, dragging two none - too - bright buddies (Turturro and Nelson) in his wake, purportedly to retrieve his booty, but actually to try to tempt his less than faithful Penelope (Hunter) away from her new suitor.

7:15 am — TCM — I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Paul Muni plays an initially optimistic and energetic young man who struggles to find a job during the Depression.

Not exact matches

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«Mike Nesbitt MLA elected new UUP leader Main Tory MP Andrew Percy wants US - style chain gangs to clear rubbish from Yorkshire's roadsides»

His arc from uneducated slave in a chain gang to the fastest gun in the south is full of nuances, and he's a badass in the many gunplay scenes.

In awe of these «professionals,» no one in town notices that the «boys» are actually escapees from a West Texas chain gang, who have unwittingly rolled into town in a stolen RV, stocked mysteriously with a sewing machine, spandex, and sequins.

The trick is that Everett Ulysses McGill is a chain gang prisoner, on the same chain as dumb Pete (Turturro and dumber Delmar (Nelson) and on the run from the police as they supposedly rush to get some loot from McGill's last heist before his old cottage is flooded by the opening of the Tennessee River by the TVA.

On screen, there are fewer pleasures, though the opening moments are undeniably impressive in an old - fashioned, epic - monolithic way, as the camera drifts up from underwater to reveal Valjean and a chain gang of prisoners hauling an enormous ship into port under the crash of waves and the glower of the police inspector Javert (Russell Crowe).

In 3D, zombies are falling straight from their body chain - gangs and are headed right for you.

In this slow - moving film, two young women would like nothing better to run into their father, missing for years when he was pulled away from his home in the Ottoman Empire during World War I when the Turks fought on the «wrong side» and drafted into the army to break rocks like members of a chain gang.

Adapted from the autobiography of escapee Robert E. Burns, it skates about some specifics, never naming the state which claps the hero into grand guignol prison camps (the book was called I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang) but is eye - openingly frank for a film of its vintfrom the autobiography of escapee Robert E. Burns, it skates about some specifics, never naming the state which claps the hero into grand guignol prison camps (the book was called I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang) but is eye - openingly frank for a film of its vintFrom a Georgia Chain Gang) but is eye - openingly frank for a film of its vintage.

When the Dude attempts to receive compensation for his soiled rug from «the Big Lebowski,» he sets off an outrageous chain of events that involves everything from kidnapping, ransom, double crosses, and pornography to a writer for the vintage TV western Branded, a gang of German nihilists, and their lethal pet marmot.

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The song is titled «Sleepwalking» from electronic band The Chain Gang of 1974.

Some opponents stick on ladders invitingly, allowing you to trash them with lumps of chain without fear of retaliation, others jump off upper levels suicidally, and indeed a whole gang can be induced to hurl themselves from the top of the machinery like lemmings.