Brute Force
Summary:
Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in this hard-hitting prison drama. Capt. Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is a cruel, corrupt prison guard who has his own less-than-ethical ways of dealing with inmates, enough so that Joe Collins (Lancaster) -- the toughest inmate in the cell block -- has decided to break out. Collins tries to persuade Gallagher (Charles Bickford), the... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Burt Lancaster - (Joe Collins)
Hume Cronyn - (Capt. Munsey)
Charles Bickford - (Gallagher)
Yvonne De Carlo - (Gina)
Ann Blyth - (Ruth)
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Review:
Although dismissed by auteur critic Andrew Sarris for its social commentary, Jules Dassin's masterful noir, which more than lives up to its title, is a wildly stylized tour of a prison in which the inmates are running the asylum. Still one of the harshest and grimmest of all noirs, it places a young, magnetic Burt Lancaster in a dung... Continue >>
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