Riot in Cell Block 11
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Riot in Cell Block 11

Year:
Duration:
80 min
Genres:
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
IMDB rate:
7
Director:
Don Siegel
Awards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1954-02-28
Filming Locations: Folsom State Prison - 300 Prison Road, Represa, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Neville Brand
James V. Dunn
Emile Meyer
Warden Reynolds
Frank Faylen
Commissioner Haskell
Leo Gordon
Crazy Mike Carnie
Robert Osterloh
The Colonel
Paul Frees
Monroe
Don Keefer
Reporter
Alvy Moore
Gator
Dabbs Greer
Schuyler
Whit Bissell
Snader
James Anderson
Guard Acton
Carleton Young
Guard Captain Barrett
Harold J. Kennedy
Reporter
William Schallert
Reporter
Jonathan Hole
Reporter Russell
Robert Patten
Frank
William Phipps
Mickey
Joel Fluellen
Al
Roy Glenn
Guard Delmar
Joe Kerr
Mac
John Tarangelo
Manuel
Robert Burton
Guard Ambrose
James Matthews
Narrator (voice)
Richard A. McGee
Himself
Robert Bice
Cell Block Guard (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
Reporter (uncredited)
Benny Burt
Inmate (uncredited)
Madge Cleveland
Mrs. Reynolds (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Jimmy Cross
Convict (uncredited)
Charles Ferguson
Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Convict Roberts (uncredited)
Thomas Browne Henry
State Governor (uncredited)
Robert Keys
State Police Captain (uncredited)
Robin Morse
Convict (uncredited)
William Newell
Guard on Phone (uncredited)
Harlan Wade
Reporter (uncredited)
Ward Wood
Bacon (uncredited)
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Trivia
This was such a financial and critical success for Allied Artists (formerly Monogram) that they were able to book the film into theatres well into the late 1950s.
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Producer Walter Wanger served a four-month prison term for shooting agent Jennings Lang, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife Joan Bennett. The experiences he had in prison so unnerved him that upon his release he resolved to make a film about what prison was "really" like, not the typical Hollywood prison film made by people who had never been anywhere near a prison or who had never had any experience with the justice system. He shot the film at California's Folsom Prison and used both guards and inmates as extras and technical advisers. Wanger's cast and crew also differed from the Hollywood "norm"; among them were actor Neville Brand, decorated Army veteran of WW II who earned a Silver Star in the Allied European campaign; actor Leo Gordon, another combat veteran who had once served a stretch in Folsom Prison for armed robbery; and then-production assistant Sam Peckinpah, whose father, Denver Peckinpah, was a widely known and respected law-and-order judge in northern California (and whose name alone was enough to get the warden to allow the film to be shot in Folsom).
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This was such a hit that Walter Wanger teamed with Don Siegel two years later for the now classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
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Photos from cast
Harry Lauter
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