Brute Force (1947)

Brute Force (1947) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1947 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jules Dassin

Written By:
Richard Brooks
Robert Patterson

Actors:
Burt Lancaster ..... Joe Collins
Hume Cronyn ..... Capt. Munsey
Charles Bickford ..... Gallagher
Yvonne De Carlo ..... Gina Ferrara
Ann Blyth ..... Ruth
Ella Raines ..... Cora Lister
Anita Colby ..... Flossie
Sam Levene ..... Louie Miller #7033
Jeff Corey ..... 'Freshman' Stack
John Hoyt ..... Spencer
Jack Overman ..... Kid Coy
Roman Bohnen ..... Warden A.J. Barnes
Sir Lancelot ..... Calypso
Vince Barnett ..... Muggsy
Jay C. Flippen ..... Hodges (guard)

Synopsis:

In the Westgate Penitentiary, the Warden A. J. Barden is a weak man, and the institution is actually ruled by the ambitious and sadistic Captain Munsey, who uses violence, fear and treachery to control the prisoners. After the suicide of Tom Lister, one of the inmates of cell R17, provoked by Captain Munsey, the prisoners loses their privileges and rest of the group of cell R-17 leaded by Joe Collins is sent to hard and insalubrious work in the drain pipe. Joe uses a successful strategy of war trying to escape, attacking the tower of the penitentiary from the outside with his men, and from inside with the team leaded by the leader Gallagher. However, the plan fails, ending in a bloodshed.

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.

Joe Collins is a convict in the State penitentiary who decides he's had enough and wants to break out. All of them are fed up with the the Captain of the Guard, Mr. Muncey, who uses both physical and psychological torture to get his way with the men. When Joe and his cell mates are assigned to work in the drainpipe located just outside the prison gate, Joe uses a tactic from the US military during World War II in Italy as the basis of the break out.

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