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For the month of April, we will be showing movies set in jail. The opportunity for escape is ever present in the genre, but these films will have the added wrinkle of depicting or expressing the need for rehabilitation and reform.
On this night, we are watching Don Siegel's 1954 film "Riot in Cell Block 11" starring Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, and Frank Faylen.
Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.
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