Chain Gang is a 1950 American drama 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.

Plot

After a state senator's bill to abolish chain gangs is rejected by the legislature, reporter Cliff Roberts goes undercover as a guard in a chain-gang prison. Equipped with false employment records and a tiny microfilm camera disguised as a cigarette lighter, he tells everyone, including his girlfriend Rita McKelvey, a reporter for a rival newspaper, that he is leaving for a fishing trip. Actually, his destination is Cloverdale Prison Farm, where he secures a job as a guard in order to investigate the circumstances surroundng a series of incidents that have left three inmates dead.