Girls in Chains (1943) EDGAR G. ULMER

[@edwardgarea7650]

Edgar G. Ulmer was a cinematic genius. Banned from the studios over personal issues, he spent his career working on a Poverty Row, often taking lemons and turning them into lemonade. In the ‘50s Truffaut and Bazin discovered him, and in the ‘60s, critics such as Ebert and Sarris also began to honor him. His 1945 noir, Detour, is now rightly seen as a classic of the genre, regularly airing in TCM. But, unfortunately, much of his work still languishes in obscurity.

[@johnbuchinsky3193]

Loved the movie. Emett Lynn as Lionel Cleeter (the drunk) was absolutely the star of the show. He stole every scene he was in.

[@eugenekozma2697]

Emmett Lynn was good in this movie.

[@dolly7639]

Healthy size-14 gals: no starving actresses, no boring barbies!

[@deloreslandeis1008]

Excellent Find! No one wanted to be a bad girl...well, maybe a little bad once in awhile. But no reform school. 😊

[@johnnytotempole4531]

This movie was made smack dab in the middle of WW2, a lot to think about 😩😩

[@catholiccrusader5328]

"Look, Joe an alcoholic," best line in this movie. Lynn stole the show.

[@kpflo123]

He was a drunk, not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to those stupid meetings.

[@Houdini774]

At first I got a big laugh out of the ladies with their big hair, then I remembered the 80's.

[@CourtB]

So true...

[@2degucitas]

That's quite a victory roll she has at 10:00

[@eugenekozma2697]

I got this on dvd.a powerful movie.i didn't know betty blythe was in it.too bad she didn't get bigger parts in movies after the silent movie Era ended.

[@sharonspencer2312]

Emmet Llyn was really good in this. I was stressed by all the violence though. I didn't expect it. After 5pm, G' ma needs light ❤ed film.

[@andrewbillingsley9377]

Interesting , two stars ion this movie later appeared in the t.v. show " Green Acers". Doris Ziffel ( the blonde at 32;42 ) and Alf Monroe , the driver for Jonny.

[@LendallPitts]

This delightfully absurd, over-the-top film is almost a send up of 1940s B melodramas. Compare it to Ulmer's Club Havana, Ruthless, Detour, or even Monsoon, all of which are emotionally involving on some level. Edgar G. must have been taking a break and having fun with this one. And you will be too if you watch it.

[@2degucitas]

Do you think it's accidental or deliberate?

[@ozakiavari9055]

Addison Randal, the actor who played racketeer Johnny Moon, (billed as Allan Byron), made only 2 more movies after GIRLS IN CHAINS. Much of his short lived career was as a singing cowboy. He became too typecast to get any more major roles;, so he turned to producing & directing very low budget films. While he was filming a riding scene in his final film THE ROYAL MOUNTED RIDES AGAIN (1945), he had a fatal heart attack. He was 39.

[@2degucitas]

When you start smoking at age 15 it takes it's toll early. Sad

[@sharonspencer2312]

Oh dear, so young.

[@rogersmith4834]

My boss was Clyde Beatty, whose last film was RING OF FEAR (1954). One co-star was Emmett Lynn as the drunken "Twitchy". He stole all his scenes in that one, too, until done in by the crazed Ringmaster, Sean McClory.

[@eugenekozma2697]

I must check out that movie.i never heard of it before.thank you.

[@guesswho5122]

A speculative title, basically no real plot, predictable action, no twists and turns, no surprises, a foreseeable happy ending, and "enriched" with several well played but dramaturgically functionless episodes with a drunkard. Had it not been for the name of Edgar Ulmer, I would have quit watching this YT-recommedation after, say, ten minutes. So I kept watching up until the very end of yet another one of those pretty weird Ulmer films. Back in 1929, in Berlin, Edgar Georg Ulmer was a member of a group of young film enthusiasts who scripted and shot epochal PEOPLE ON SUNDAY. The others were Fred Zinnemann (HIGH NOON etc.), Robert Siodmak (THE KILLERS, CRISS CROSS, The SPIRAL STAIRCASE etc.), Curt Siodmak, and Seymor Nebenzal (producer of films such as the aforementioned PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, but also of Fritz Lang's "M" and DOKTOR MABUSE etc.). And there was also Billy Wilder in that team. Never in the history of filmmaking have so many future giants of that art worked together, and rarely have there been such diverging careers as in the case of Ulmer and the others. On the other hand: Even stranger are the films of Billy Wilder's brother W. Lee Wilder, some of which are available on YT. Several years ago, European film fans have seen to it that a commemorative plaque was fixed to Ulmer's birthplace in the town of Olmütz in former Austria-Hungary

[@dolly7639]

... Oh those sets! You see what an art department and $75 can get you?!

[@dellasimmons966]

The blond chick in the class room the girl in the first roll look like Sally Strugthers ( All in the Family).

[@2degucitas]

Ms. Martin reminds me of Leah Remini (King of Queens)

[@carolmallery8623]

She sure does look like her!

[@petekanter1612]

Watching this, it is somewhat difficult to believe what's actually true: Arlene Judge began her 33 year-long acting career in the pre-code era, playing the role of a chorus girl! (Her scenes in her screen debut, LAUGH AND GET RICH, released in 1931, were deleted.)

[@sharonspencer2312]

Oh my, why would that happen?

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thanks🍕Flix!

[@MrUhwoody]

The Amazing Colossal Hair.

[@stellayates4227]

And how about the size of the hatpin 14 minutes in! Talk about a lethal weapon.

[@flu42o]

What a cheap set. The doorway in the scene at 8:28 was so short the guy had to take off his hat AND duck under the head of the door frame just to get through without cracking his noggin, and he was comparatively average height to the other actors. Lol.

[@dennytuma3878]

love the hairdo's

[@dellasimmons966]

Ms. Martin its the eyes are similar to Leah Remini & the tone of voice...

[@jaysoper3974]

these gals are so nicely coiffed, unlike the #metoo slobs today

[@rmcrae62]

Hilariously bad. Thanks for the upload, it was fun

[@rogersmith4834]

Arline should have punched her hairdresser. Even for the '40s, her "do" is a distracting exaggeration.

[@gregjackson6529]

Anyone haunted by the song "Johnny comes Marching home"? I was. It's been playing subtlety in the background music a few times already. Like here kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3Woo32VetONiNU (when they enter the room).

[@miapdx503]

Every time that Johnny Moon was in the scene. I thought it strange.

[@benjaminfreyman4273]

Oh I loved it. Different from the norm

[@SueEmmDee]

What's with that kooky music?

[@user-wc7mo9uo9o]

Quite good. She looks and sounds like Leah Remini.

[@rebeccarobbins3210]

Orange is the New Black and White

[@prevost8686]

Lovin every minute of it too...

[@2degucitas]

Ha good one

[@riceisnice7988]

Arthur Morgan

[@silentnquiet]

How is that possible, i'm confused. Roger clark was born in 1978 and this movie was made in 1943?

[@31HLeslie]

Ms. Martin, u have a ridiculous hairstyle and many women of your era wore ridiculous hats, BUT, you'll be a great supervisor of the School Of Correction.

[@michaelbabbitt3837]

Cultural snobbism. Why do people have to put people's looks down from the past. Even the slob had more class than many today.

[@myrnagroger132]

This movie was good for 1943, despite the hair-dues.(ls)

[@nicholasperez2096]

her hair keeps getting bigger.

[@2degucitas]

They used an inner tube to make that victory roll.

[@kayimba6149]

oh and the hats:)

[@susanfisher4944]

The hats and the big long hatpin that the mean old lady kept pulling out of her hat. I kept hoping she would poke herself with it.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Sid Melton (name changed for Jewish reasons) looked and acted so much like Lou Costello (of Abbott and Costello.)

[@cynk956]

Sound quality is poor so a thumb's down.

[@dominicpiscopo7915]

That guy started smiling B-4 the not guilty verdict was read his timing was really off thats why this is the only movie I’ve ever seen him in just saying lol

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Arline Judge such kissable lips but that hair style grosses me out!

[@catholiccrusader5328]

That drunk was pretty good!

[@tmo.48]

♡♡♡

[@jenniferreed8913]

Julian dwell of U. R. M. Resue mission is Jeffrey with Tom cunningham from ymca hostel in San Diego. California.

[@ozakiavari9055]

"During prohibition, in the 1930s, Johnny Moon got arrested for selling alcohol..." Officer Donovan explains to Miss Martin. (But, that was either an error in the script, or Roger Clark flubbed his lines; and the director, Edgar G. Ulmer, didn't notice it.) Because the era of alcohol prohibition was in the 1920s!

[@BIROT100]

5th december 1933 is the end of Prohibition so three years into the thirties

[@andreamerriweather9944]

What about that hairdo

[@waderaney7]

👍

[@kpflo123]

Barbara Pepper - Green Acres, Arnold's mother.

[@johnnyray88]

I think it's wrong for the judge to scold the jury. It shows that the judge is bias and should be disbarred.

[@miapdx503]

A judge can absolutely do that. He can also set the verdict aside, and I was surprised he didn't.

[@danielstanwyck2812]

seriously put together junk.