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SKU: FD1021
Format: DVD
UPC: 760137867494
Street Date: 04/19/22
PreBook Date: 03/15/22
Label: FILM DETECTIVE »
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 96 mins
Number of Discs: 1
Audio: STEREO
Year of Production: 1966
Region Code: 0
Box Lot: 30
Territory: NORTH AMERICA
Language: English

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Director: Jerry Gross

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Girl On A Chain Gang [The Film Detective Special Edition]

Poor White Trash! Stay Clear - This Town Got Ways of Teaching You a Lesson!

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Schlock producer Jerry Gross made his directorial debut with Girl on a Chain Gang (1966), a stirring feature about small town hate. William Watson, Julie Ange, and Ron Charles star in this shocker about three young people who are framed, arrested, and tossed into jail by corrupt Southern police. Gross, who produced everything from Blaxploitation films to features about teen pregnancy, exercised his social conscience in this drama about racist Southern cops. It was made the year after three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, a subject Gross must've believed was worth exploiting into drive-in theater fare. True to his low budget roots, Gross filmed this one nowhere near the South, but in Long Island, New York!

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Bonus Materials

Full length audio commentary with author, Jennifer Churchill
New, original essay by Lisa Petrucci, in a full color booklet
'IT'S ALL IN THE TITLE: EXPLOITING JERRY GROSS' - A short history of the semi-legendary producer with author/film historian Chris Poggiali, from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures

Sales Points

'Girl on a Chain Gang marks the debut film of Film premiere of William Watson, who portrays Sheriff Sonny Lew Wymer.
From Grindhouse movie writer / director Jerry Gross (Teenage Mother)
Stars William Watson (In the Heat of the Night), Julie Ange (Teenage Mother), Ron Charles 9The Other Side of the Wind) and Arlene Farber (The French Connection).

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