1966 Exploitation classic GIRL ON A CHAIN GANG Available on Special-Edition Blu-ray and DVD April 19th From The Film Detective

The Film That Blew the Lid on Small Town Hate, With Brand-New Restoration and Never-Before-Seen Special Features

Cinedigm announced today that The Film Detective, the classic film restoration and streaming company, in partnership with Something Weird Video, will release the exploitation classic Girl on a Chain Gang (1966) on special-edition Blu-ray and DVD, April 19.

From famed shlock distributor-producer-director Jerry Gross, whomade his directorial debut with Girl on a Chain Gang, 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. Made the year after three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, Girl on a Chain Gang addresses a subject Gross must have believed worth exploiting into drive-in theater fare. True to his low-budget roots, the movie was filmed nowhere near the South, but in Long Island, New York.​

BONUS FEATURES:

• Full-length audio commentary with Movies are Magic author and Classic Films for Kids host, Jennifer Churchill
• New, original essay from Something Weird Video’s Lisa Petrucci, in a full-color booklet insert
•  It’s All in the Title: Exploiting Jerry Gross, a short history of the semi-legendary producer with author/film historian Chris Poggiali, from Daniel Griffith at Ballyhoo Motion Pictures.

Girl on a Chain Gang will be available on Blu-ray ($24.95) and DVD ($19.95) April 19 or fans can secure a copy by pre-ordering now at: https://www.thefilmdetective.com/girl-on-a-chain-gang