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...Riot in Cell Block 11 (Allied Artists) is the best prison movie produced in years. It employs what Hollywood chooses to call the "semidocumentary" style-which generally means only that the picture has no love story. In this case, it means something resembling clever crusading journalism, with a weather eye on the circulation figures. There is a moral in Producer Walter Wanger's tale: the need for reform in U.S. penal institutions is critical. The moral is slickly coated with violence, however, and the pill should go down easy with the mass public...
...plot is patterned on the prison riots of the last year and a half, when thousands of convicts in 35 prisons revolted, sometimes seized guards as hostages, and demanded better food and living conditions. That is what happens in Cell Block 11 of the unidentified prison in question. The convicts, led by a long-termer (Neville Brand), present their demands to a state mediator. He arrogantly rejects them. The riot explodes into other cell blocks. The prisoners run berserk in a thoroughly frightening scene of rage in the mass. In the end, the governor signs the prisoners' petition...
...starring Maurice Evans. Using NBC's huge, new Brooklyn studio, Director Albert McCleery made a spectacular pageant of the play, with wolfhounds, horses, birds, ships, a cast of 37 (including Kent Smith and Sarah Churchill) and a mountain of scenery packed into twelve sets, ranging from a prison cell to the 40 ft. battlements of Berkeley Castle...
...Colonel General Peko Dapcevic (TIME, Jan. 18). But more basic was a series of articles he published in Borba, the official party daily, criticizing the theories and techniques of the Yugoslav party. He attacked bureaucracy, implied that it was "enslaving" the country's productive forces, poked fun at cell meetings and urged that they be opened to non-Communists as well as Communists. "When a revolution has been successful," wrote Djilas, "the next logical step is a turn toward democracy . . . There is and can be no other way out but more democracy, more free discussion, freer elections of social...
Transfer. In Paris, Optatus Bastet, former chief bursar of the De la Sante Prison, wound up in a cell after officials discovered that he had taken 1,200,000 francs ($3,428), from the prison safe for "travel expenses...