FILMED ON THE SPOT BEHIND PRISON WALLS!
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Director: Don Siegel
Writers: Richard Collins
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www.noiroftheweek.com Coming as a big surprise to me, the forgotten gem Riot in Cell Block 11 is being released by Criterion on DVD soon. The film is a semi-documentary noir released in the early 1950s. The film documents a fictional riot at the famous California prison, F…
This begins with a television interview given by real-life prison reformer Richard McGee who reacts to a well documented spate of prison riots by informing the audience that they, too, must bear their share of responsibility for the conditions endured by the inmates. We are then…
