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).