Shot in just five days for a meager $20,000, Girls in Chains was nonetheless a massive success at the time of it's release thanks in part to the tactful direction of B-movie maestro Edgar G. Ulmer, former apprentice to Fritz Lang and William Wyler. Arline Judge (The Mysterious Mr. Wong) plays Helen Martin, a clean-cut girl who is forced to accept a position at a girls correctional facility after she loses her respectable teaching position because her sister is married to a notorious criminal.