Brute Force
Brute Force

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At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Brute Force:

Burt Lancaster
Hume Cronyn
Charles Bickford
Yvonne De Carlo
Ann Blyth
Ella Raines

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At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail; prompting an escape scheme that has every chance of turning into a bloodbath.

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Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Dave KehrThe escape sequence has the spatial intricacy of the heist in Dassin's Rififi, but the tone is tougher, bleaker, and more suspenseful.
Chicago Tribune - 9/10 by Michael WilmingtonBrilliantly photographed by William H. Daniels, Brute Force is both a humanistic personal drama and a bravura piece of genre filmmaking.
The Guardian - 8/10 by Philip FrenchBrute Force was the first important assignment of leftwing director Jules Dassin.
The New York Times - 8/10 by Bosley CrowtherJules Dassin's steel-springed direction keeps the whole thing approriately taut.
Orlando Sentinel - 8/10 by Crosby DayJules Dassin wasn't a bad director before he went to Europe and caught a bad case of Art (He Who Must Die), and this 1947 prison picture, done in the gritty late-40s documentary style, is one of his best efforts.
MSN.com - 8/10 by Sean AxmakerThe title says it all in Jules Dassin's bare-knuckle prison thriller, one of the most brutal films about caged men ever made.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 7/10 by Emanuel LevyStarring Burt Lancaster and cast against type Hume Cronyn, Dassin's first foray into noir is one of the bleakest and most powerful crime prison melodramas ever made, an existential chronicle that also serves as an allegory of American society at large
Variety - 4/10 by Variety StaffBristling, biting dialog by Richard Brooks paints broad cameos as each character takes shape under existing prison life.
User Review - 10/10 by vic fA gem in the noir genre, bruteforce showed that Jules Dassin had a sharp eye for good actors and an even sharper one for camera work.
User Review - 10/10 by Kyle VWhat a great film. Dassin gets so much out of the cell space, it's pretty amazing. And I can not say enough about Hume Cronyn; his performance as the calm and maliacious head of the guards is one of the greatest villians ever.

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