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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
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I thought that Mervyn LeRoy's "I am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang" was a very entertaining, captivating, and well developed film. For starters I thought that Paul Muni fit the part perfectly. He pulled off the look of an early hard working post war veteran. What really impressed me was how well Muni acted out his characters feelings and emotions while locked up in prison as well as after he'd escaped.I also found the in-studio sets to be very impressive on accounts of how real they were made to look, like the prison barracks for example or the actual jail house itself. The characters were the most gripping part of the film for me. Muni made it extremely hard not to sympathize with James Allen and root for him in the end.
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003)
"The Gold Rush" Review
Charlie Chaplin's silent black and white film "The Gold Rush" was a very interesting as well as entertaining creation. It was the first silent all black and white film that I ever watched before and i have to say that i was very impressed. Chaplin's movements, actions, and gestures all throughout the film provide a great sense of humor that i would have never expected possible without being able to hear the voices of the actors themselves. i also found it interesting how the entire movie almost seemed to be broken up into several different stories all playing out into one ending. Some of the movies most important characters weren't even introduced until at least half way through the film.