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      Girls in Chains

      Released May 17, 1943 1h 12m Crime Drama List
      Reviews A fired teacher (Arline Judge) finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective (Roger Clark) on a case. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The real stars of the film are those beehive hairdos sported by the gals. Rated: C- Apr 20, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      kevin w This feature has a title that should have sold the work outright, if not the premise ... but no. So very bad, boring as vegetarian cuisine, and ultimately unwatchable. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Of the five Edgar G. Ulmer films that I have seen so far, this is by far is least interesting film. Girls in Chains revolves around a woman who takes up a position at a girls reformatory after losing her job because of her brother-in-law, Johnny Moon, being a major racketeer in the city. One of the problems I had with the film was how it deals with the character of Johnny Moon. The entire film centers around bringing Johnny Moon to justice and early on we are shown that is clearly guilty of murder and other crimes yet, you never really feel like he is large and in charge. The script reminds us that the city is essentially under siege by moon but it spends more time just telling us instead of showing us and creating this dark atmosphere. Barring a few exceptions, the film is just bland, from it's visuals to it's depecition of the conditions in the reformatory and the teacher's struggle to bring justice to Moon without worrying about her sister. I wish they went a more dramatic route as there is a lot of nice natural conflicting emotion and drama when you have two sisters with quite different mindsets, but its never really exploited in a way that's anything beyond a banal story-arch. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A fired teacher (Arline Judge) finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective (Roger Clark) on a case.
      Director
      Edgar G. Ulmer
      Production Co
      Atlantis Pictures
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 17, 1943, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 11, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 12m
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