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Riot in Cell Block 11: Directed by Don Siegel. With Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon. Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Don Siegel
- 1954-02-28
Box office. $1,531,755 [1] Riot in Cell Block 11 is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Don Siegel and starring Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon and Robert Osterloh. [2] Director Quentin Tarantino called it "the best prison film ever made."
Riot in Cell Block 11. Early in his career, Don Siegel made his mark with this sensational and high-octane but economically constructed drama set in a maximum-security penitentiary. Riot in Cell Block 11, the brainchild of producer extraordinaire Walter Wanger, is a ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates’ rights that ...
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TIME Magazine Riot in Cell Block 11 is the best prison movie produced in years. Sep 19, 2014 Full Review Keith Phipps The Dissolve [Director Don] Siegel later referred to Riot In Cell Block 11 as ...
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- Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen
- Don Siegel
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Apr 21, 2014 · Essays —. Apr 21, 2014. A s a liberal film of its time, Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) addressed itself to the public, which it held ultimately responsible for the conditions that made prison riots a hot issue in the United States in the 1950s. The narrative, which producer Walter Wanger and screenwriter Richard Collins modeled after the events ...
Sep 26, 2015 · Title: Riot in Cell Block 11 Summary: Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials. Directed by: Don Siegel Actors: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) was conceived by producer Walter Wanger as both a highly personal movie and a major social plea to the American public. That it succeeded as both, while also existing on its own terms as a tough, fast-moving prison drama, stands as a testament not only to Wanger but to the superlative skills of writer Richard Collins and director Don Siegel.
