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Brute force [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Jules Dassin.

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Criterion Collection, c2007.

Prisons -- Officials and employees -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Criterion collection 383.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (98 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Based on a story by Robert Patterson.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1947.

Special edition features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; audio commentary by film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini ; a new interview with Paul Mason, author of Capturing the media: prison discourse in popular culture ; theatrical trailer ; stills gallery ; PLUS: a new essay by film critic Michael Atkinson, a 1947 profile of producer Mark Hellinger, and rare correspondence between Hellinger and Production Code administrator Joseph Breen over the film's content.

English (SDH) subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Mark Hellinger Productions ; directed by Jules Dassin ; produced by Mark Hellinger ; screenplay by Richard Brooks.

Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles Bickford with Yvonne DeCarlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Anita Colby, Sam Levene, Howard Duff, Art Smith, Jeff Corey and Whit Bissell.

"As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin's forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that also takes a critical look at American society. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey (a riveting Hume Cronyn). Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, Brute Force builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom." --Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992.

Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994.

Bickford, Charles, 1891-1967.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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