Riot in Cell Block 11
(Blu-ray) 

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Contributors
Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968, film producer,
Collins, Richard, 1914-2013, screenwriter.
Siegel, Don, 1912-1991, film director.
Brand, Neville, 1920-1992, actor.
Meyer, Emile, 1910-1987, actor.
Published
Irvington, NY : The Criterion Collection, 2014.
ISBN
9781604658323, 1604658320
Status
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http://www.criterion.com/films/28551-riot-in-cell-block-11

Subjects

LC Subjects
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Folsom Prison -- Drama.
Male prisoners -- Civil rights -- Drama.
Male prisoners -- Drama.
Prison administration -- Drama.
Prison films.
Prison riots -- Drama.
Prisons -- California -- Drama.
Prisons -- Drama.
Social problem films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Published
Irvington, NY : The Criterion Collection, 2014.
Format
Blu-ray
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9781604658323, 1604658320
UPC
0715515114615, 715515114615

Notes

General Note
Originally issued as part of dual-format collection.
General Note
Videodisc release of the 1954 motion picture.
General Note
Accompanying booklet contains a brief essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, a 1954 article by Walter Wanger, and a brief 1974 essay by Sam Peckinpah.
General Note
Additional information on the film available online at the Criterion Collection's website.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production 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.
Participants/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.
Description
"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.
System Details
Blu-ray; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural; NTSC, region A; requires Blu-ray player.
Language
In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired (SDH).
Local note
BLU-RAY

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Wanger, W., Collins, R., Siegel, D., Brand, N., Meyer, E., Faylen, F., Gordon, L. V., Osterloh, R., Frees, P., Keefer, D., Moore, A., Greer, D., Bissell, W., Anderson, J., Young, C., Kennedy, H. J., Schallert, W., Hole, J., Patton, B., Phipps, W., Fluellen, J., Glenn, R., Kerr, J., Tarangelo, J., Burton, R., Harlan, R., Pierce, B., Milton, D., Priestley, R., Gilbert, H. B., Mullendore, J., Bernstein, M., Tabori, K., Siegel, D., Kaminsky, S. M., Fujiwara, C., & Peckinpah, S. (2014). Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954 motion picture release., [blu-ray edition].). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Walter Wanger et al.. 2014. Riot in Cell Block 11. The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Walter Wanger et al.. Riot in Cell Block 11 The Criterion Collection, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Wanger, Walter, et al. Riot in Cell Block 11 1954 motion picture release., [blu-ray edition]., The Criterion Collection, 2014.

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