Riot in cell block 11 / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents ; a Walter Wanger production ; story and screenplay by Richard Collins ; directed by Don Siegel.
Edition:
Dual-format edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon, Robert Osterloch, Paul Frees, Don Keefer, Whit Bissell. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954. Special features: New audio commentary by film scholar Matthew H. Bernstein; Excerpts from the director's 1993 autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by his son Kristoffer Tabori; Excerpts from Stuart Kaminsky's 1974 book Don Siegel: Director, read by Tabori; Excerpts from the 1953 NBC radio documentary series "The challenge of our prisions".
Summary:
A sensational and high-octane but economically constructed drama set in a maximum-security penitentiary. Shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras.
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