They Gave Him a Gun (1937 film)

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They Gave Him a Gun is a 1937 American drama film that follows a World War I veteran whose wartime experiences lead him into a life of crime.

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They Gave Him a Gun (1937 film) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
drama film
film
novel
basedOn They Gave Him a Gun (novel) NERFINISHED
blackAndWhite true
cinematography Harold Rosson NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director W. S. Van Dyke NERFINISHED
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
editedBy Ben Lewis NERFINISHED
filmingStudio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios NERFINISHED
genre drama
hasTitle They Gave Him a Gun NERFINISHED
language English
mainCharacterOccupation World War I veteran
musicBy William Axt NERFINISHED
narrativeTheme crime
moral conflict
postwar trauma
originalLanguage English
partOf 1930s American films
producer Harry Rapf NERFINISHED
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
releaseDate 1937-04-16
releaseYear 1937
runtimeMinutes 94
screenwriter Idwal Jones NERFINISHED
Leon Gordon NERFINISHED
setDuring World War I NERFINISHED
starring Franchot Tone NERFINISHED
Gladys George NERFINISHED
Spencer Tracy NERFINISHED

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: They Gave Him a Gun (1937 film)
Description of subject: They Gave Him a Gun is a 1937 American drama film that follows a World War I veteran whose wartime experiences lead him into a life of crime.

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Leon Gordon workedOn They Gave Him a Gun (1937 film)