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Girls in Chains

Feature film · 71 min · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer

GIRLS' REFORM-SCHOOL RACKET EXPOSED!

  • Crime
  • Drama
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Synopsis

When Ruth Martin is discharged from her teaching position because her sister is married to a notorious criminal (who is basically running the city), she accepts a job at a girls correctional facility. Her intent is to try and prepare the inmates for a better life once they are released. Ruth runs up against the supervisor (who is controlled by her brother-in-law) who is only interested in skimming money off the budget and his gang of matrons who only want to keep the girls in line doing laundry.

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Details

Director
Edgar G. Ulmer
Writer
Albert Beich
Composer
Leo Erdody
Cinematography
Ira H. Morgan
Studio
PRC, Atlantis Pictures
Released
1943-05-17
Running time
71 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Woohoo! A girls in prison movie! · picfixer · 2011-07-28

…er, maybe I shouldn't have been quite so enthusiastic. A teacher/psychologist takes a job as a rehabilitation instructor at a women's prison, but her efforts are blocked at every turn by the prison's corrupt staff. A gangster who controls the prison by remote control is in the mix, and so the plot is split between efforts to bring him to book and what goes on at the prison. The result is too much plot for a low-budget B to handle. Four minutes are missing from this print, which doesn't help. Nevertheless there is enough entertainment here to make a watch worthwhile. High points are a…

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