RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1954
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Producer, Walter Wanger, who'd just done time (4 mos after shooting a man he believed was having an affair with his wife), wanted to make a film which showed the appalling conditions he saw while incarcerated. Working with Don Siegel, they wrote this film. In protest to the brutal guards, substandard food, overcrowding and poor living conditions, inmates stage an uprising, and take several guards hostage. Negotiations between the inmates and prison officials are stymied by politicians interfering with the prison administration, and by dissension and infighting amongst the inmates.
• Cast: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon, Robert Osterloh, Paul Frees, Don Keefer, Alvy Moore, Dabbs Greer, Whit Bissell, James Anderson, Carleton Young, Harold J. Kennedy, William Schallert, Jonathan Hole, Robert Patten, William Phipps, Joel Fluellen, Roy Glenn, Joe Kerr, John Tarangelo, Robert Burton, James Matthews, Richard A. McGee, Robert Bice, Ralph Brooks, Benny Burt, Madge Cleveland, Tom Coleman, Jimmy Cross, Charles Ferguson, Frank Hagney, Thomas Browne Henry, Robert Keys, Harry Lauter, Robin Morse, William Newell, Harlan Wade, Ward Wood, Don Siegel, Richard Collins, Walter Wanger, Walter Mirisch, Russell Harlan, Herschel Burke Gilbert
• Director: Don Siegel
• Runtime: 1:20
• Media Format: Movie