

There’s a Riot Goin’ On
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May 01, 2014Early in his career, Don Siegel made his mark with this sensational and high-octane but economically constructed drama set in a maximum-security penitentiary. Riot in Cell Block 11, the brainchild of producer extraordinaire Walter Wanger, is a ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates’ rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons. In Siegel’s hands, the film, shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras, is at once brash and humane, showcasing the hard-boiled visual flair and bold storytelling for which the director would become known.
Dunn | Neville Brand |
The warden | Emile Meyer |
Haskell | Frank Faylen |
Carnie | Leo Gordon |
The colonel | Robert Osterloh |
Monroe | Paul Frees |
Newspaperman | Don Keefer |
Gator | Alvy Moore |
Schuyler | Dabbs Greer |
Snader | Whit Bissell |
Acton | James Anderson |
Captain Barrett | Carelton Young |
Graphic Reporter | Harold J. Kennedy |
First reporter | William Schallert |
Russell | Jonathan Hole |
Frank | Robert Patten |
Mickey | William Phipps |
Al | Joel Fluellen |
Delmar | Roy Glenn |
Mac | Joe Kerr |
Manuel | John Tarangelo |
Ambrose | Robert Burton |
Produced by | Walter Wanger |
Director | Don Siegel |
Story and screenplay | Richard Collins |
Photographed by | Russell Harlan |
Film editor | Bruce B. Pierce |
Music composed and conducted by | Herschel Burke Gilbert |
Orchestrations | Joseph Mullendore |
Production manager | Allen K. Wood |
Unit manager | Richard Maybery |
Assistant director | Austen Jewell |
Art director | David Milton |
Recorded by | Paul Schmutz Sr. |
Set director | Robert Priestley |
Set continuity | Bill Hole |
Special effects | Ray Mercer |
Assistant to Mr. Siegel | Sam Peckinpah |
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