I'm just what is around you

In my defense, Whit Bissell was not in "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" (2018), but he sure was in Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). I may write about this movie; I ordered it from the library last week when I was thinking about prison noir based on Brute Force (1947) and I wish I'd seen some intermediary examples to compare with, but it's fast, ferocious, and the punch of its Pyrrhic victory for prison reform has only gotten more extra-diegetically upsetting in light of what hasn't changed—or has worsened—in the last sixty years. Cast entirely composed of character actors, most of whom I've never seen anywhere near a leading role before. So who plays the unsympathetic screw turned favorite hostage of the prisoners forced to bargain for their own rights?



Me to spatch: "Did I accidentally summon him? Is he just in my movies now?"