tt0039224 Brute Force (1947)Director : Jules Dassin

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Genre : Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

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

Plot : At a challenging penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins intentions to revolt opposition Captain Munsey, the power-mad monolithic guard.

Run Time : 98 min

Country : USA

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Language : English

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Company : Mark Hellinger Productions

Trivia : Film debut of Howard Duff.

Goofs : Revealing mistakes: During the battle inside the protector tower between Munsey in addition to Collins, protector Tom gives the impression to tolerate been killed, however the stunt player Tom Steele who plays him is enormously evidently twining Hume Cronyn.

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Plot Summary : At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence with prospect are the belief with the warden has less electrical energy than guards with leading prisoners, the smallest amount smiling prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates innate shield Captain Munsey, a trivial dictator who glories inside finalize power. After lone infraction excessively many, Joe with his cell-mates are turn on the terrible drain pipe detail; prompting an break out ideas that has every likelihood of whirling into a bloodbath.

In the Westgate Penitentiary, the Warden A. J. Barden is a weak man, with the convention is essentially ruled by the ambitious with sadistic Captain Munsey, who plans violence, possibility with treachery to direct the prisoners. After the suicide of Tom Lister, one amongst the inmates of suite R17, encouraged by Captain Munsey, the prisoners loses their privileges with recreation of the range of suite R-17 leaded by Joe Collins is sent to tough with insalubrious task inside the drain pipe. Joe plans a triumphant mode of battle attempting to escape, attacking the tower of the penal complex cherish the outside plus his men, with cherish indoors plus the side leaded by the chief Gallagher. However, the finances fails, breaking up inside a bloodshed.