WOMEN IN CHAINS (TV) (1972 USA)
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Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Starring: Jessica Walter, Lois Nettleton, Ida Lupino
Genres: Drama
71 minutes | Full Screen | Color | English
The made-for-TV Women in Chains is strictly for those who enjoy knowing what's coming next. Lois Nettelton stars as a probation officer investigating prison conditions. To better facilitate her studies, she adopts an assumed name and has herself thrown into jail as a convict. Ida Lupino (but of course) is the sadistic head of the prison. The only outside person who knows of Lois' subterfuge dies, leaving the hapless heroine at the mercy of Lupino and the vicious female cons. Typical of the "realism" inherent in Women in Chains is the casting of ebullient young actress Judy Strangis as a strung-out junkie.
