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Fled(1996)

R
| 1h 38min | Action
2.8/5 (with 90 votes)

During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is related to stolen money that the Mafia is after, and some computer files that somebody wants desperately to bury. The pair, who don't exactly enjoy each other's company, escape and must work together if they are to reach Atlanta alive. Luckily, they meet a woman who may be willing to help them.

Directed by Kevin Hooks - With Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Will Patton, Robert John Burke, Salma Hayek, Bill Bellamy, ...

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang(1932)

1h 32min | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 79 votes)

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Allen Jenkins, Douglass Dumbrille, ...
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Sullivan's Travels(1941)

NR
| 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 185 votes)

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.

Directed by Preston Sturges - With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Jimmy Conlin, Robert Warwick, ...
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The Defiant Ones(1958)

NR
| 1h 36min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 96 votes)

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

Directed by Stanley Kramer, Paul Helmick - With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., ...

Route 666(2001)

R
| 1h 26min | Horror, Action, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 29 votes)

Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.

Directed by William Wesley - With Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty, Steven Williams, Dale Midkiff, L. Q. Jones, Alex McArthur, ...
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Thieves Like Us(1974)

2h 3min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt, ...

Hell's Highway(1932)

NR
| 1h 2min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

Directed by Rowland Brown

Cut-Throats Nine(1972)

R
| 1h 23min | Crime, Thriller, Western, Horror
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

A wagon load of convicts on their way to prison is being escorted through the mountains by a cavalry troop. They are attacked by a bandit gang, and only a sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and an assortment of seven sadistic, murderous prisoners survive, and they are left without horses or a wagon. The sergeant must find a way to get his prisoners to their destination while protecting his daughter, watching out for the still pursuing bandits and trying to determine which one of the prisoners was the man who raped and murdered his wife.

Directed by Joaquín Luis Romero Hernández Marchent - With Robert Hundar, Mabel Karr, Emma Cohen, Alberto Dalbés, José Manuel Martín, Simón Arriaga, ...
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The Laramie Kid(1935)

57min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.

Directed by Harry S. Webb

Blackmail(1939)

NR
| 1h 21min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Directed by H. C. Potter - With Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Arthur Hohl, Charles Middleton, Esther Dale, ...

20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang(1933)

20min | Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Four convicts escape from a chain gang. Shortly thereafter, changes are made at the prison, because a blue ribbon commission will be investigating conditions there. The changes include steak every day for dinner and stage shows for entertainment. After reading about this, the four escapees plead with the warden to take them back in. Or was this all a dream?

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp(1926)

1h 2min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Adventure
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Joan Crawford, Harry Langdon, Alec B. Francis, Tom Murray, Brooks Benedict, Edwards Davis, ...
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Chain Gang Women(1971)

R
| 1h 25min | Action, Drama
0.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A shackled murderer and marijuana offender escape from a Georgia chain gang.

Directed by Lee Frost - With Barbara Mills, Linda York, Michael Stearns, Wes Bishop, Bruce Kimball

39 Stripes(1979)

1h 1min | Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Former chain gang convict Ed Martin converts to Christianity in prison in 1944 and forms the HopeAglow Prison Ministries.