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Paramount Home Entertainment
Directed by: Don Siegel
Early 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.
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Format:
Blu-ray
DVD
Discs:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
English PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Audio Recording, Radio Program, Booklet
- New audio commentary by film scholar Matthew H. Bernstein
- Excerpts from the director’s 1993 autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by his son Kristoffer Tabori
- Excerpts from Stuart Kaminsky’s 1974 book Don Siegel: Director, read by Kristoffer Tabori
- Excerpts from the 1953 NBC radio documentary series The Challenge of Our Prisons
- An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, a 1954 article by producer Walter Wanger, and a 1974 tribute to Siegel by filmmaker Sam Peckinpah
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