Sentences with phrase «of chain gangs»

Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

This is a gritting, depressing film about the horrors of the chain gang prison camps of the south in the early 20th century.

Leroy's 1932 film is a fiery indictment of the chain gang hypocrisy that often lacks subtlety, but never power.

There he — and 1930's audiences — witnessed the atrocities of the chain gang institution in the American south.

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.

Thanks Fritz, I'm excited to be part of The Chain Gang!

It'll be interesting to look back on this chain in a few years and see how things are turning out for all of the Chain Gang members.

Completed videos can be uploaded to YouTube or the Rockstar Games Social Club to share with friends or show grandma how many cops you can blow up with the rocket launcher to the music of The Chain Gang of 1974.

Alice Seeley Harris, Manacled members of a chain gang at Bauliri.

Not exact matches

Such gangs are believed to not have the economic and political clout to expand beyond local drug sales and trafficking, and the State Department reports that they «do not yet appear to be a formal part of the transnational drug logistics chain.»

The non-profit which employs former gang members is now selling a selection of food products at Ralphs and Food 4 Less chains.

The gang were recorded by CCTV cameras carrying out the heist at Joyalukkas, a Middle Eastern jewelry chain, in the Forest Gate area of east London.

THE (BLOCK) CHAIN GANG: FUTURISTIC FINANCE From digital currencies like Bitcoin to decentralized real estate ownership records, the blockchain continues to be one of the tech world's most promising and perplexing technologies.

Nearly all bipartisan budget discussions have called for enacting the chained CPI, including the Fiscal Commission, Super Committee, Domenici - Rivlin Commission, and the Gang of Six.

Berringer played for a Cornhuskers team that in 1995, when a number of players were involved in criminal incidents, was regarded as a chain gang dressed in red.

One of the most frustrating parts of watching a game is waiting for the chain gang to come out and measure a first down, only to show that the ball was short by two chain links.

Related: Jason Witten caught puking on the sideline [GIF] Related: Kansas City Chiefs player gets panted [GIF] Related: NBC loves them some Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders [GIF] Related: Joseph Fauria with amazing Touchdown Face Celebration [GIF] Related: Joique Bell with «Hip Hop Horray» TD Dance with Lions fans [GIF] Related: Adrian Peterson goes 78 - yards for TD on first carry of season [GIF] Related: Lavonte David's late hit penalty resulted in game - winning field goal for Jets [GIF] Related: Terrell Pryor takes out chain gang guy [GIF]

Related: Jason Witten caught puking on the sideline [GIF] Related: Kansas City Chiefs player gets panted [GIF] Related: NBC loves them some Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders [GIF] Related: Joseph Fauria with amazing Touchdown Face Celebration [GIF] Related: Joique Bell with «Hip Hop Horray» TD Dance with Lions fans [GIF] Related: Adrian Peterson goes 78 - yards for TD on first carry of season [GIF] Related: Tyrann Mathieu saved TD by forcing fumble at goal - line [GIF] Related: Lavonte David's late hit penalty resulted in game - winning field goal for Jets [GIF] Related: Terrell Pryor takes out chain gang guy [GIF]

Related: Jason Witten caught puking on the sideline [GIF] Related: NBC loves them some Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders [GIF] Related: Joseph Fauria with amazing Touchdown Face Celebration [GIF] Related: Joique Bell with «Hip Hop Horray» TD Dance with Lions fans [GIF] Related: Adrian Peterson goes 78 - yards for TD on first carry of season [GIF] Related: Tyrann Mathieu saved TD by forcing fumble at goal - line [GIF] Related: Lavonte David's late hit penalty resulted in game - winning field goal for Jets [GIF] Related: Terrell Pryor takes out chain gang guy [GIF]

Related: Jason Witten caught puking on the sideline [GIF] Related: Kansas City Chiefs player gets panted [GIF] Related: NBC loves them some Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders [GIF] Related: Joique Bell with «Hip Hop Horray» TD Dance with Lions fans [GIF] Related: Adrian Peterson goes 78 - yards for TD on first carry of season [GIF] Related: Tyrann Mathieu saved TD by forcing fumble at goal - line [GIF] Related: Lavonte David's late hit penalty resulted in game - winning field goal for Jets [GIF] Related: Terrell Pryor takes out chain gang guy [GIF]

While you didn't show an entire crowd your middle finger, much like the chain - smoking, no - condom - wearing, cocaine - using belligerent teammate of yours did last month in Manchester, you should have known that by flashing what you did to your rival gang members situated in extremely close proximity to you was going to make those under the influence of alcohol react they way they did.

Instead of joining the diplomatic corp, Republican former Sen. Vincent Leibell is going to the chain gang.

Gangs of chain - smoking men in safety vests armed with earthmovers and mechanized shovels eat into the hillsides and plains to build yet more roads.

The first opens on a dusty road on the eve of the Civil War, as the avuncular Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) claims chain gang slave Django (Jamie Foxx) by violently disposing of his two owners (one of them is James Remar, who crops up later in the second of these three films in a different role).

Keeping in perspective when it was made the film is not bad, Muni a fine actor when not in costume, say in Chain Gang, brings the hambone out as Zola ages and many of the rest of the cast are stiff and overly grand.

Along for the ride and a share of the money are two simple - minded felons (John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson) who just happened to be part of Everett's chain gang.

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.

Wrongfully convicted for a hold - up, a war vet sentenced to a chain gang escapes and builds a new, respectable existence, only to realize he can never be free of his past.

One of the stronget Depression era's social protest films, this expose shattered audiences in its harrowing depiction of guards» brutalities and other inhuman conditions of prison chain gangs.

Hale Hamilton's most famous talkie assignment was as the clergyman brother of chain - gang prisoner Paul Muni in 1932's I Am a Fugitive.

In embracing this new locale, Scorsese creates a movie built on the foundations of GoodFellas and Mean Streets but not chained to it, a picture that feels as effortless as The Aviator and Gangs of New York felt effortful.

A chain gang of slaves crosses a wintery plain.

Set in the South during the 1930s, three men have just escaped a chain gang in order to retrieve the treasure which one of them buried before his capture.

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.

Thus the Coens» film: nominally a movie about the travails of a trio of chain - gang escapees making their way across Depression - era Mississippi; in fact, a picaresque musical romp and arguably their lightest cinematic fare to date.

This problem becomes apparent almost immediately, when, after overseeing an ostentatiously shot chain gang, the unwaveringly moralistic Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) releases a down - and - out Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) after serving his absurdly unjust 19 - year prison sentence for stealing a loaf of bread.

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).

Unlike many other character actors, he had been wrong on that point for quite a few yearsâ $» at the very least, since late 1967, when filmgoers first heard the line «What we have here is failure to communicate» out of the mouth of the pusselgutted chain - gang overseer in Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke.

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.

Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as escaped chain gang prisoners, shackled together and on the run, in the most Stanley Kramerish of all Stanley Kramer pictures.

The Chain Gang (1930)(7:50) Like many of the earliest Disney cartoons, general antics are on display here more than a plot.

In Cool Hand Luke, Newman is once again the anti-hero, but this time he's a stubborn, rebellious convict who stands up to The Man (in the person of cruel southern chain gang warden Strother Martin).

«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.

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 vintage.

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).

3:15 am (5th)-- TCM — Cool Hand Luke One of Paul Newman's most memorable films, with Newman playing a renegade prisoner on a Southern chain gang who refuses to do what he's told, escaping time and time again only to be recaptured as the guards attempt to break him.

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).

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.