Quentin Tarantino called it "the best prison film ever made"

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Quentin Tarantino called it "the best prison film ever made"

Posted: 10/17/2022 2:47:31 PM EDT

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) Don Siegel, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon, Robert Osterloh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_in_Cell_Block_11

Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1C310pAwg4

Posted: 10/17/2022 2:54:46 PM EDT

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Cool I will watch this when my 3yr old gives up the TV.

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:13:41 PM EDT

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tag

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:21:19 PM EDT

[#3]

That's because Shawshank wasn't out yet.

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:24:21 PM EDT

[#4]

Face Off?

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:24:38 PM EDT

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Quentin Tarentino was wrong.. THIS is the best prison movie ever made.. and Big Al was the funniest guy ever filmed. His insults are top tier (see what I did there)

[4K] Full movie Blood In Blood Out (1993) with subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0UMzVYVk8

skip to 49:40 for the funny stuff

"You take a ticket.. or you get run over"

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:35:50 PM EDT

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I'm surprised he hasn't tried to rip it off.

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:43:41 PM EDT

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It should go without saying that Quentin Tarantino has strange taste in... everything.

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:47:58 PM EDT

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Johhny Winter - "Riot In Cell Block #9"

Johnny Winter riot in cellblock #9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg5dQ02FtQ

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:48:41 PM EDT

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Wrong! There were a lot of prison movies on Cinemax after midnight that were much, much better.

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:50:13 PM EDT

[#10]

Pretty sure that distinction belongs to "Chained Heat"

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:51:40 PM EDT

[#11]

are they lots of bare feet in it or something???

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:55:43 PM EDT

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Quentin Tarentino was wrong.. THIS is the best prison movie ever made.. and Big Al was the funniest guy ever filmed. His insults are top tier (see what I did there)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0UMzVYVk8

skip to 49:40 for the funny stuff

"You take a ticket.. or you get run over"

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Wrong!! American Me was the best prison movie ever made.

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:57:17 PM EDT

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Death Warrant

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:58:12 PM EDT

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Prison wallet

Posted: 10/17/2022 3:58:28 PM EDT

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That's the bat signal for Milkman but I think he was banned.

Posted: 10/17/2022 4:00:41 PM EDT

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Or Death Race if you prefer.

Posted: 10/17/2022 4:19:17 PM EDT

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Brawl in Cell Block 99 was quite good, if not extremely realistic.
The narrative was more of a mythic telling of what a man can do against all odds, using prison as more of a metaphor.
By the same director/writer of Bone Tomahawk and Dragged Across Concrete.

Posted: 10/17/2022 4:22:33 PM EDT

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Oz was a good series. J.K.Simmons, Ernie Hudson...

Posted: 10/17/2022 4:34:43 PM EDT

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are they lots of bare feet in it or something???

That's the bat signal for Milkman but I think he was banned.

Long time ago.

Posted: 10/17/2022 4:35:25 PM EDT

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Did everyone forget about The Longest Yard?

Posted: 10/17/2022 4:36:33 PM EDT

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I didn't. And QT sucks.

Posted: 10/17/2022 4:47:41 PM EDT

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Weird, the films writer Richard Collins, doesn't look like any Collins Iv'e seen.

Collins had a successful film career up until the Hollywood 19 were called to testify before HUAC in October, 1947. At that time he agreed with the rest of the so-called unfriendly witnesses to plead the First Amendment Rights of free speech. Of the nineteen, only ten (the "Hollywood Ten") were called and it wasn't until 1951 that Collins was called to testify before HUAC. By this time his politics had changed and he agreed to testify becoming one of the first "friendly witnesses."[citation needed]

Collins admitted to formerly being a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, Hollywood Writers' Mobilization, the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), and the Progressive Citizens of America (PCA). Despite his past, Collins claimed that he stopped paying his Communist dues in 1939. Collins became infamous for naming people he knew to be in the Communist Party, even close friends. In all, he ultimately named 26 of his colleagues. Despite being heavily involved in the Communist movement in the 1930s, when he attended four to five meetings a week, he professed that he no longer followed their doctrine and never saw anything he did as an effort to undermine the security of the United States

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:10:05 PM EDT

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Neat after re-repeating it a few times Alexa finally brought it up, I'll watch it this evening.

Thanks for posting

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:13:52 PM EDT

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These days as someone who has been inside the walls for 15 years and transporting in the fed system. Everything from campers to max to psych/smu, Shot Caller is where it's at. I'll have to watch the OP's film however. First I've heard of it.

Shot Caller Official Trailer #1 (2017) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jon Bernthal Crime Drama Movie HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxjyRr9k2E

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:19:38 PM EDT

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These days as someone who has been inside the walls for 15 years and transporting in the fed system. Everything from campers to max to psych/smu, Shot Caller is where it's at. I'll have to watch the OP's film however. First I've heard of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxjyRr9k2E

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Never heard of that. I’ll have to check it out.

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:25:00 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/17/2022 5:35:34 PM EDT

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Maybe in days when prisons held criminals and the mentally ill were off in looney bins.

Now it is likely all American Me combined with One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest.

None of the guys from Quentin's movie would be shoving razors from their shaving kits up their urethra, repeatedly, for a trip to the hospital.

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:46:28 PM EDT

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Airplane! (1980) "Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish Prison..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E9ftsaHtWw

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:49:12 PM EDT

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This.
Honorable mention...

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:49:25 PM EDT

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Lucille!

That's the first movie I thought of, too, but then I started wondering if maybe QT is considering it as a separate genre, as a chain gang movie.

A classic "prison movie" should probably have the common elements of an exercise yard, a concrete cell block, and lots of idle time for the cons.

Posted: 10/17/2022 5:56:45 PM EDT

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The best films usually win awards.
Here's my vote.

Midnight Express (1978) Official Trailer #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buDEEC7tKv4

Posted: 10/17/2022 6:48:08 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/17/2022 6:49:59 PM EDT

[#33]

Earnest goes to jail was tge best prison film ever made.

Posted: 10/17/2022 6:55:50 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/17/2022 7:15:35 PM EDT

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These days as someone who has been inside the walls for 15 years and transporting in the fed system. Everything from campers to max to psych/smu, Shot Caller is where it's at. I'll have to watch the OP's film however. First I've heard of it.

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This film does cover a lot of what happens.