Daily TV and radio guide Oct 10, 2009
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 8 p.m. (TCM). Story of an innocent man s persecution. (Boston Globe)
How Americans dealt with the Depression Sep 13, 2009
The former - John Steinbeck and Richard Wright, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - are the more obvious relics of Depression culture, but Dickstein, author of the well-regarded Leopards in the Temple, makes a stronger case for the latter. He sees the ugly realities of the Depression cleverly hidden inside the decade s swing music, its backstage movie musicals - even its d. (Boston Globe)
New on DVD: 'Bolt,' 'Quantum,' 'Duck' Mar 27, 2009
But it should be noted, especially in the times, that the set's powerhouse 1933 duo of Heroes for Sale and Wild Boys of the Road ranks just behind 1932's I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang as the definitive Warner Bros. Depression sagas. (USA Today -- Life)
