Down in Poverty Row, low budgets led to less palliative fare. Republic aspired to major-league respectability while making many cheap and modestly budgeted westerns, but there was not much from the bigger studios that compared with Monogram "exploitation pictures" like juvenile delinquency exposé "Where Are Your Children?" (1943) and the prison film "Women in Bondage" (1943). In 1947, PRC's "The Devil on Wheels" brought together teenagers, hot rods, and death. The little studio had its own house auteur: with his own crew and relatively free rein, director Edgar G. Ulmer was known as "the Capra of PRC." Described by critic and historian David Thomson as "one of the most fascinating talents in the worldwide labyrinth of sub-B pictures," Ulmer made films of every generic stripe. His "Girls in Chains" was released in May 1943, six months before "Women in Bondage"; by the end of the year, Ulmer had also made the teen-themed musical "Jive Junction" as well as "Isle of Forgotten Sins", a South Seas adventure set around a brothel.