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Brute Force (aka Zelle R 17) is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Jules Dassin, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks with cinematography by William H. Daniels. It stars Burt Lancaster , Hume Cronyn , Charles Bickford and Yvonne De Carlo .
Brute Force: Directed by Jules Dassin. With Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo. At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Jules Dassin
- 1947-08
Mar 6, 2020 · Brute Force is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Jules Dassin, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks with cinematography by William H. Daniels. It stars Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles Bickford.
- 98 min
- 10.2K
- Felicity Dungworth
Brute Force. As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was one of Jules Dassin’s first forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama with a scathing critique of the punitive American incarceration system at its heart.
- Joe Collins
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard. 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.
Brute Force isn’t just one of the best prison films ever made, it is a must-see film noir, with its ugly portrayal of a doomed society, about to implode in a raging sea of uproar and abandon. The misery is laid on thick, as is the tension, and there is even something brutal about the setting ― an almost modernist prison at times, with its ...
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Brute Force is disguised as a brutal and harsh prison break film, but underneath its bravado lies a beautifully written tragedy of all that these men long to get back.
