Riot in Cell Block 11 / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents a Walter Wanger production ; story and screenplay by Richard Collins ; directed by Don Siegel

Additional Titles: Riot in Cell Block Eleven and Container title: Walter Wanger's Riot in Cell Block 11
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Copyright Date: ©2014
Edition: Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Additional Creators: Wanger, Walter, 1894-1968, Collins, Richard, 1914-2013, Siegel, Don, 1912-1991, Brand, Neville, 1920-1992, Meyer, Emile, 1910-1987, Faylen, Frank, 1905-1985, Gordon, Leo V., 1922-2000, Osterloh, Robert, Frees, Paul, Keefer, Don, 1916-2014, Moore, Alvy, 1921-1997, Greer, Dabbs, 1917-2007, Bissell, Whit, 1909-1996, Anderson, James, 1921-1969, Young, Carleton, 1906-1971, Kennedy, Harold J., 1914-1988, Schallert, William, 1925-, Hole, Jonathan, Patten, Robert, 1925-2001, Phipps, William, 1922-, Fluellen, Joel, 1907-1990, Glenn, Roy, 1915-1971, Kerr, Joe, active 1948-1959, Tarangelo, John, 1930-1985, Burton, Robert, 1895-1962, Harlan, Russell, 1903-1974, Pierce, Bruce, Milton, Dave, 1888-1979, Priestley, Robert, 1901-1986, Gilbert, Herschel Burke, Mullendore, Joseph, Bernstein, Matthew, Tabori, Kristoffer, Siegel, Don, 1912-1991, Kaminsky, Stuart M., Fujiwara, Chris, Peckinpah, Sam, 1925-1984, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

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Language Note

In English with optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired (SDH).

Summary

"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.

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ISBN

9781604658323
1604658320

Sound Characteristics

Blu-ray digital optical mono LPCM
DVD digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0

Video File Characteristics

Blu-ray laser optical NTSC
DVD laser optical NTSC

Digital File Characteristics

Blu-ray video file Blu-ray region A
DVD video file DVD video region 1

Note

Blu-ray disc requires Blu-ray player.
Videodisc release of the 1954 motion picture.
Accompanying booklet contains a brief essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, a 1954 article by Walter Wanger, and a brief 1974 essay by Sam Peckinpah.
Additional information on the film available online at the Criterion Collection's website.
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 Note

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.

Participant/Performer Note

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.

Technical Details

Blu-ray; region A, NTSC, 1.37:1 aspect ratio, monaural.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; monaural.

Terms of Use and Reproduction

No public performance rights. Classroom instruction and home use permitted.

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