Riot in Cell Block 11 [blu-ray]

"A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.

General Note:

Videodisc release of the 1954 motion picture.

Accompanying booklet contains a brief essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, a 1954 article by Walter Wanger, and a brief 1974 essay by Sam Peckinpah.

Additional information on the film available online at the Criterion Collection's website.

Special features: Commentary (featuring film scholar Matthew H. Bernstein); Don Siegel on Riot in Cell Block 11 (Kristoffer Tabori, Don Siegel's son, reads the chapter on Riot in Cell Block 11 from the director's autobiography A Siegel Film); Excerpt from Don Siegel: Director (Tabori reads excerpts from the chapter on Riot in Cell Block 11 from Stuart Kaminsky's 1974 book Don Siegel: Director, which includes in interview with actor Neville Brand); The challenge of our prisons (excerpts from journalists Peg and Walter McGraw's NBC radio documentary series The Challenge of Our Prisons originally aired in March 1953).

Performers:

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.

Technical Details:

Blu-ray; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural; NTSC, region A; requires Blu-ray player.

Corporate Subject:

Folsom Prison -- Drama.

Subject Term:

Prisons -- California -- Drama.

Prisons -- Drama.

Prison riots -- Drama.

Male prisoners -- Drama.

Male prisoners -- Civil rights -- Drama.

Prison administration -- Drama.

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