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Riot in Cell Block 11
Title
Riot in Cell Block 11 / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents a Walter Wanger production ; story and screenplay by Richard Collins ; directed by Don Siegel.
ISBN
9781604658323
1604658320
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Distribution
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Notes
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). All features available on both formats. Blu-ray disc contains the feature film in high definition; DVD disc contains the feature film in standard definition.
Photographed by Russell Harlan ; film editor, Bruce B. Pierce ; art director, David Milton ; set decorator, Robert Priestley ; music composed and conducted by Herschel Burke Gilbert ; orchestrations, Joseph Mullendore.
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired (SDH).
Summary
"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.
Variant and related titles
Riot in Cell Block Eleven
Container title: Walter Wanger's Riot in Cell Block 11
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 04, 2017
Series
Criterion collection ; 704
Credits
Photographed by Russell Harlan ; film editor, Bruce B. Pierce ; art director, David Milton ; set decorator, Robert Priestley ; music composed and conducted by Herschel Burke Gilbert ; orchestrations, Joseph Mullendore.
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.
System details note
Blu-ray; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural; NTSC, region A; requires Blu-ray player.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural.
Videorecording number
CC2351BDDVD The Criterion Collection
CC2351BDDVD-1 The Criterion Collection
CC2351BDDVD-2 The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Social problem films.
Prison films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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