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Riot in Cell Block 11
Description
Inhumane prison living conditions leads to riot. Surprisingly, the criminals don't want to escape -- they just want better living conditions.
Inhumane prison living conditions leads to riot. Surprisingly, the criminals don't want to escape -- they just want better living conditions.
Actors:
Robert Patten,
Roy Glenn,
William Phipps,
William Newell,
James Matthews,
Jonathan Hole,
James Anderson
Robert Patten
11 October 1925, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Roy Glenn
3 June 1914, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
William Phipps
4 February 1922, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
William Newell
January 6, 1894 in Millville, New Jersey, USA
James Matthews
Jonathan Hole
13 August 1904, Eldora, Iowa, USA
James Anderson
13 July 1921, Wetumpka, Alabama, USA
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Don Siegel #Emile Meyer #Frank Faylen #Neville Brand #Riot in Cell Block 11 #Walter Wanger
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April 21, 2014
[Director Don] Siegel later referred to Riot In Cell Block 11 as his breakthrough film, and it's easy to see why. Shooting fast and loose, he gives the film a documentary immediacy [...]
September 19, 2014
A powerful and intelligent prison film.
New York Times
October 31, 2006
The grim business of melodrama behind prison walls, so often depicted in standard, banal fashion in films, is given both tension and dignity in Riot in Cell Block 11.
January 24, 2005
An authentic and hard-hitting prison drama.
Time Out
June 24, 2006
A riveting movie.
September 19, 2014
The film sketches in the set-up with a beautifully delineated terseness -- one-shot character introductions, a rookie guard cold-cocked, the prison corridor erupting as the cons pour out.
September 19, 2014
Riot in Cell Block 11 is the best prison movie produced in years.
May 13, 2014
As Dunn and Crazy Mike, the leaders of the riot, Neville Brand and Leo Gordon convincingly bleed into their roles.
January 01, 2000
One of the best of all prison pictures.
April 22, 2014
Siegel, with his innate sense of cinematic intensity and how to deploy violence with both visual and thematic heft, keeps the film's style relatively simple and straightforward, which allows the complexities of the situation at hand to take center-stage.
March 26, 2009
Riot in Cell Block 11 is a hard-hitting, suspenseful prison thriller.
September 19, 2014
Don Siegel emerged as more than just a Hollywood journeyman director with this hard-hitting, realistic prison picture, which presents a credible account of both the riot and the conditions that caused it.

