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...Cell 28 was black and dirty, smelling rather strongly of the prostrate man on the one steel bench. A couple of cells down were two women, also drunk, who were attempting to solicit the attention of the guards who walked up and down the dingy corridor. Some other drunks added to the babble in the cell block...
...said to my cell mate. The drunk's eyes flickered, then he swallowed once and turned over, unconscious. An hour, then two, went by as I watched the more sober ones go out to talk to bondsmen. Finally the guard stopped in front of cell 28, "What did I tell you, boy, Freddie will spring...
...Riot in Cell-Block 11 has some points to make about prison reform, and hammers them home with billy clubs and screaming sirens. Doling out undiluted propaganda, the film presents a semi-documentary account of a prison revolt at Folsom Penitentiary, and between tedious explanations of its causes and effects, packs in some excellent action scenes. As a result, Riot presses its criticism of outmoded prison methods relentlessly in both dialogue and action. The effect is almost too strong...
...oddly enough, the rioters prove to be idealists who have gained little for their troubles. Riot in Cell Block 11 concludes on a note of sour realism in harmony with its previous tone. Though the film's propaganda remains both pure and laudable, for entertainment value this is hardly an unmixed blessing...
...accident the night before.* Policewoman Eagle, who was assigned to join the Communist Party and was shot at when Communists discovered her police connection, testified that she had known Dr. Irving Peress and his wife as "full-fledged members" of the Communist Party, had sat with them in party cell meetings. Then Dentist Peress took the witness stand and refused, on the ground of selfincrimination, to answer 33 questions relating to Communist activity...