Chain Gang (1950)

Directors

Lew Landers

Cast

Douglas Kennedy

The story

After a state senator's bill to abolish chain gangs is rejected by the legislature, reporter Cliff Roberts goes undercover as a guard in a chain-gang prison. Equipped with false employment records and a tiny microfilm camera disguised as a cigarette lighter, he tells everyone, including his girlfriend Rita McKelvey, a reporter for a rival newspaper, that he is leaving for a fishing trip. Actually, his destination is Cloverdale Prison Farm, where he secures a job as a guard in order to investigate the circumstances surrounding a series of incidents that have left three inmates dead.

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