[Update 10/31/2021: Need to redo this review completely. Fix the screenshots
also.]
Just a year after
STALAG 17, Neville Brand finds himself back in prison. This time he's in a large state
prison and he's had enough of the overcrowding, bad food and the abusive guards
so he leads a riot and ends up capturing nine guards. He and his fellow convicts
threaten to kill the guards unless some of their demands are met. Lots of tense
situations and violence follows.
For 1954 this movie was pretty hard-hitting and violent and even had one direct
reference to male-on-male prison rape! Director Don Siegel also helmed
PRIVATE HELL 36, ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ and
DIRTY HARRY.