RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 (1954) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Don Siegel
Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Leo Gordon,
Frank Faylen, Robert Osterloh, Paul Frees,
Dabbs Greer, William Schallert, Whit Bissell
Straight-ahead storytelling with no side trips or diversions, about a revolt over living conditions in a maximum-security prison. Quentin Tarantino thinks it's the best prison movie ever, which might be stretching it, but you can see what he's getting at. Shot on location at Folsom Prison, and directed with brutal efficiency by Don Siegel, whose personal assistant on the picture, working on his first movie ever, was Sam Peckinpah.
