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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. Director Quentin Tarantino called it "the best prison film ever made."
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.
- (2.5K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Don Siegel
- 1954-02-28
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.
- 81 min
- 2.3K
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 was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons.
- Dunn
Audience Member Released in 1954, Riot in Cell Block 11 is an homage to liberal theories of humane treatment of prisoners as opposed to punitive treatment - an approach dating back to...
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- Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen
- Don Siegel
- Action
Riot in Cell Block 11, American low-budget crime film, released in 1954, that offers a critical look at the prison system in the United States. It was inspired by a real-life Hollywood incident. A group of convicts—led by James Dunn (played by Neville Brand) and Crazy Mike Carnie (Leo Gordon)—stage.
Emboldened by the riot in block eleven, the inmates of block four rise up and bolt into the prison yard. When cell block five also erupts in violence, the warden sends for the state police who arrive just as the inmates begin to ransack and set fire to the prison buildings.
