Anita Colby, Ann Blyth, Burt Lancaster
In this intense prison drama, Burt Lancaster plays Joe Collins, the toughest inmate on the cell block, and Hume Cronyn is Capt. Munsey, a corrupt prison guard whose ruthless nature has made him the ba...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 17, 2007
Stats: 110 reviews
The last line of "Brute Force", a prison escape noir, is "nobody ever escapes". Perhaps director Jules Dassin is using the prison as a microcosm of society under a fascist rule - Captain Munsey (Hume Cronyn) is certainly a manipulative, violent, and power-hungry wretch with an un...( read more)
gritty drama about a prison break. burt lancaster is outstanding in only his second film after a great debut in the killers and hume cronyn plays against type as a sadistic guard. there's some sappy melodrama in the flashback scenes but overall pretty damn good
I love Dassin, but I just wasn't crazy about this one. Lancaster is great and the choice of angles is superb as well.
Here's a nice prison film for you, with Burt Lancast as the tough con and Hume Cronyn as the tougher sadistic guard who watches over him, a war of wills encased in a prison!. . ..
Brute Force is like a film noir version of Shawshank Redemption, except not quite as good despite its influence. The characters for the most part are pretty good (even if they're not entirely convincing) and under Dassin's direction it looks beautifully gritty. The character of C...( read more)
wow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch......its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie.....i think that yvonne de carlo, charles bickford, ella raines, hume cronyn, burt lancaster, ann blyth, anita colby play good...( read more)
If you know you're in for real thick melodrama from the opening credits to the closing lines and you still go for it, then you're in for a perfectly constructed, gorgeously shot noir.
What saves this movie from being a typical prison flick is its good ending although it would have been better without those crappy last lines said by the doctor
Without a shadow of a doubt, Brute Force is a classic movie that still stands today, as a powerful piece of film-making. Everything about this movie is top notch - the acting, the direction, the cinematography, the pacing are all essential ingredients in this superb film. Althoug...( read more)
Hume Cronyn and Burt Lancaster save Jules Dassin's Brute Force which is filled with unnecessary flashbacks and isn't really appealing enough for a film noir.
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