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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An early Burt Lancaster film, and what a film! i remember watching this when i was 11 years old, as it was one of my fathers favourites.
It tells the story of 6 inmates (of cell R17) serving time in a harsh prison, made all the more worse by a sadistic prison warden called Capt.Munsey, who beats the prisoners with "Brute Force" to get them to do his will. each of the prisoners of cell R17 has his story to tell of the "Outside" where life with their respective wives/girlfriends did them a bad turn, hence ending up in prison, and wanting to get back on the "outside"
The ending of the film is quite explosive and dramatic.
A must for film buffs, and an often overlooked Burt Lancaster gem!
It tells the story of 6 inmates (of cell R17) serving time in a harsh prison, made all the more worse by a sadistic prison warden called Capt.Munsey, who beats the prisoners with "Brute Force" to get them to do his will. each of the prisoners of cell R17 has his story to tell of the "Outside" where life with their respective wives/girlfriends did them a bad turn, hence ending up in prison, and wanting to get back on the "outside"
The ending of the film is quite explosive and dramatic.
A must for film buffs, and an often overlooked Burt Lancaster gem!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Great film from the legendary director Jules Dassin. Not one of his best but a gem nevertheless. The picture assigned to this product here indicates that this is a Criterion Collection item. It is not!
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Until this day Jules Dassin's Brute Force stands out as the greatest prison drama ever made. Made in 1947 it is one of the beginning movies of Burt Lancaster which has made before this movie The Killing (1946). Jules Dassin made his debut back in 1942 after working as assistant director to the great Hitch on his earliest American movies. It was for this film that Dassin started to get noticed and made an interesting investment for one of Hollywood's most important producers at that time, Mr. Mark Hellinger. This guy went on producing the following movie Dassin did, Naked City (1948). Unfortunatelly due to heart failure he died never seeing the premiere of Naked City.
An unusual prison movie with strong noir elements like dark charaters, doubtfull pasts of cell members, femme fatale, and so on. This noirish flavour makes it unforgetable to every viewer. The action is full of adrenalyne and never stops to amaze. Although made years after Each Dawn I Die (1937) if am correct for the year, ranks still the first movie of its kind in a top that follows Each Dawn I Die with James Cagney.
After 62 years of its release the movie is as fresh as ever and it is issued for the first time in the UK on DVD.
Phenomenal experience, never to be forgotten, that's Brute Force!
An unusual prison movie with strong noir elements like dark charaters, doubtfull pasts of cell members, femme fatale, and so on. This noirish flavour makes it unforgetable to every viewer. The action is full of adrenalyne and never stops to amaze. Although made years after Each Dawn I Die (1937) if am correct for the year, ranks still the first movie of its kind in a top that follows Each Dawn I Die with James Cagney.
After 62 years of its release the movie is as fresh as ever and it is issued for the first time in the UK on DVD.
Phenomenal experience, never to be forgotten, that's Brute Force!
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"Brute Force (1947) ... Burt Lancaster ... Criterion Collection...
The Criterion Collection presents "BRUTE FORCE" (30 June 1947) (98 min/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) -- Burt Lancaster had one of his first starring roles in... Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. Lovins
Not that convinced
BRUTE FORCE must have been a shocker in its day but now it is clearly dated and extremely predictable. Lancaster. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Movie Fan from Portugal
excellent
I sent for this dvd BRUTE FORCE 1947 i was only 3 years old when they
made this film that film is orsome that was jail in them times if you
robbed some one of 1000... Read more
made this film that film is orsome that was jail in them times if you
robbed some one of 1000... Read more
Published on 25 April 2010 by Stuart John Cooper
About time!
One of Burt Lancaster's first films and well worth watching. I have been waiting for this release for some time having seen on TV some years ago.
Published on 11 Oct 2009 by Ray Marjac
Yes, but...
Yes, an absolutely amazing film; one of the best of the classical Hollywood era.
BUT WHY NO EXTRAS ON THE DVD??????? Unacceptable in this day and age!
BUT WHY NO EXTRAS ON THE DVD??????? Unacceptable in this day and age!
Published on 10 Nov 2008 by Richard di Calatrava
Prisons - in 1947 and now
The remark of the prison doctor in this film that "...we're building a human bomb..." is apposite - even to this very day, when one reads about the overcrowding of prisons in... Read more
Published on 17 May 2008 by N. Baldwin
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