In real life was there really a riot?
Yes.
Damn that movie must have sucked. I kind of want to see it.
I have seen in!!! It's not remarkably bad, just low-budget shabby awful, with Bela Lugosi. If you want your mind boggled, better to see "Glen or Glenda", which is just insane.
I think Ed was hitting the bottle extra hard when he wrote that one.