Chain Gang (1950)
It was legal murder until a reporter and his girl dared to get the inside story!
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
- Date of release
- 1950-11-01
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Crime, Action, Drama
- Director
- Lew Landers
Casting
- Douglas Kennedy — Cliff Roberts, aka Jack Granger
- Emory Parnell — Capt. Duncan
- William Phillips — Roy Snead
- Don C. Harvey — Lead Guard Langley
- Harry Cheshire — Editor Daniel "Pop" O'Donnell
- Marjorie Lord — Rita McKelvey
- Thurston Hall — John McKelvey, news publisher
- Billy Lechner — Eddie Jones, convict with sore foot
- Larry Steers — Committee Chairman
- Herbert Rawlinson — Senator Holden
- George Eldredge — Guard Adams
- Rusty Wescoatt — Guard Yates
Interesting facts
Chain Gang is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Lew Landers, written by Howard J. Green and starring Douglas Kennedy as a newspaper reporter who works undercover to expose political corruption and the exploitation of chain-gang labor.
Production
Lew Landers was announced as the film's director in early May 1950.
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