The Film Detective: First Look at New Restoration of Girl on a Chaingang and Blu-ray
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Posted March 25, 2022 05:33 PM by Webmaster
The Film Detective has provided us with a promotional trailer for the recent restoration of Jerry Gross' Girl on a Chain Gang (1966), starring William Watson, Julie Ange, Ron Charles, and Arlene Farber. The release is set to arrive on the market on April 19.
Description: 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!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: 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!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEWLY RESTORED
- Audio commentary
- Featurette from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
- New, original essay, in a full color booklet
- Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles for the main feature
