Review: Girl on a Chain Gang (1966)
Exploitation maven Jerry Gross may be better remembered for the movies that he distributed than for the ones that he actually created. Notorious grindhouse staples such as I Spit on Your Grave , I Drink Your Blood , Fulci's Zombie , Penitentiary , The Black Godfather , and The Mafu Cage owe their reputations largely to Gross and his entrepreneurial efforts, but as a director, his output is much smaller and more obscure. Now, his first and arguably most unknown film, 1966's Girl on a Chain Gang, has been given wonderful new restoration by The Film Detective in collaboration with Something Weird Video. Three young social rights activists (a white man, a white woman, and a black man) are driving through the south when a small town sheriff pulls the group over. It doesn't take long to realize that they're in the wrong place at the wrong time and that this good ol' boy lawman and his crooked cronies have no intention of letting them leave. They don't take too kin...