Riot

1969

Crime / Drama / Thriller

5
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 755 755

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Plot summary

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

Director

Buzz Kulik Photo
Buzz Kulik

Top cast

Bill Walker Photo
Bill Walker as Jake
Mike Kellin Photo
Mike Kellin as Bugsy
Gene Hackman Photo
Gene Hackman as Red Fraker
Gerald S. O'Loughlin Photo
Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Grossman
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889.74 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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1.61 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thinker1691 7 / 10

" Don't wait for me. I'll be here for one hundred years "

Every prison throughout the world, whether state or Federal is an enclosed pressure cooker capped by an ever tightening lid of anger, hate and frustration. Within the walls are a collection of unruly, unpredictable, undisciplined gathering of misfits, murderers and anti-social types. For the most part they are watched and guarded so they do not escape their confinement which is the location for the film called " Riot. " Jim Brown stars as Cully Briston with Gene Hackman as Red Fraker. Although, Cully is to be released in a couple of months, 'Red' and his fellow inmates stage a small takeover in the infirmary which spills over to the detention ward. Having little to do with the initial incident, Cully nevertheless becomes part of the escalating situation when he helps his friends. Gerald O'Loughlin, plays one of the more contentious prison guards who has been throwing his weight around for years in the prison, suddenly feigns sickly and fragile in the face of death. Meanwhile, the Warden who has been vacationing, returns and orders the prisoners to cease and desist. As he prepares to send in his Riot-Squads, the prisoners plan on escaping with an Indian guide called Surefoot. (Ben Carruthers) The seconds tick away and the situation becomes hopelessly unmanageable. The Warden, the Guards and the prisoners all await the next turn of events. Strong character drama from Brown, Hackman and Mike Kellin give this feature a realistic aura and one sure to make high drama for the audience. Good Film and one of the best performances for Jim Brown. ****
Reviewed by kapelusznik18 5 / 10

Introducing the men of the Arizona State Prison

***SPOILERS*** It what turned out to be a major screw up by the not so bright convict leader Red Fraker, Gene Hackman, his well planned break- out of the Arizona State Prison collapsed almost as soon as it began. Relying on a bunch of incompetents as well as boozed up and sex starved convicts Faker's plan went up in smoke with the prison locked down and hundreds of armed police as well as national guardsmen preventing anyone from moving beyond the lock-up area. It's up to Cully Briston, Big Jim Brown,who had nothing at all to do with this insane plan to get Faker as well as his mindless prison followers chestnuts, and nuts they all are, out of the fire before things get really out of control.With just six months to go for his parole hearing Briston is anything but happy in getting involved with this failed prison brake but has no choice but to go along with it. With the convicts taking control of the joint they go completely batty drinking smoking pot and parading around as drag queens making any attempt to escape, by those who still have a sense of survival, almost impossible. Seeing that he's now facing life, in being involved in the prison brake that he had no part of, Briston decides to brake out by him and a number of still sane, and not drunk and on drugs, convicts digging a tunnel under the prison walls to make their escape. The only problem in all this is that one of the convicts that's involved in the brake out Surefoot, Ben Carruthers, is a completely psycho individual who in fact doesn't hide his feeling towards Briston, so why did he pick him in the break out plan, and will slid a shiv in his back as soon as he has it turned!***SPOILERS**** The film is a lot like the Attica State Prison riot as well as massacre, with some 50 prisoners and guards killed,that took place two years-in 1971-after the film "Riot" was released. In the film despite Surefoot's intentions to screw everything up both Briston as well as Fraker stick with him to the point when he messes up their escape by trying to stick it, with a shiv, to Briston when he's on the guard tower and was on the verge of escaping. It in fact was Fraker who prevented Surefoot from knifing Briston who gets the worst of it in getting his throat slit with the deranged Surefoot then getting offed by Briston. In the end with all the planning only Briston escapes but is never seen or heard from again and very probably died from exposure or snake bites in the inhospitable Arizona desert.
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