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Riot is a 1969 American drama film produced by William Castle, directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Gene Hackman and Jim Brown.
Riot: Directed by Buzz Kulik. With Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin, Gerald S. O'Loughlin. A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Buzz Kulik
- 1969-05-09
Based on the novel by. Frank Elli. Buzz Kulik's "Riot" suffers in the most essential area of any action picture: organization of the action. Good action movies do not consist simply of movement, violence, physical contact and adventure.
Led by two inmates, the prisoners in a state facility take guards hostage and stage an all-out riot, protesting ill-treatment, but unbeknownst to them it's a ruse for their two leaders to escape through a secret tunnel while all the commotion is going on.
- Buzz Kulik, Danny Mccauley
- Jim Brown
A riot staged by convicts (Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin) to cover their escape spirals out of control.
- Buzz Kulik
- Action
- Jim Brown
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“A protest, a riot, I don’t care what you call it,” says Red (Gene Hackman), the mastermind of an audacious plan to break out of an Arizona prison in the 1969 release Riot, produced by William Castle, directed by Buzz Kulik (Brian’s Song), and adapted by James Poe (They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
A desperate group of convicts stage a minor riot to divert attention in an escape attempt. Red (Gene Hackman) and two others perpetrate the uprising, but word has leaked out and the riot is quickly changed into a symbolic protest against prison conditions and alleged cruelty by sadistic guards.
