Shot in just five days for a meager $20,000, "Girls in Chains" was nonetheless a massive success at the time of its 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.