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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- DVD007048
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Brute Force
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Dassin, Jules
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Criterion Collection, 2020
- Title:
- Brute Force
- Director:
- Dassin, Jules
- Production Co:
- Mark Hellinger Productions, Inc.; Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc.
- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
98 minutes.
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1947
- Publisher:
- Criterion Collection, 2020
- Language:
- English language with optional English subtitles for those hard of hearing
- Genre:
- Film Noir, Crime, Melodrama
- Notes:
- 4K digital transfer. As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was one of Jules Dassin’s first forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama. 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. Only Collins’s dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey’s chains?
Supplemental materials include: audio commentary from 2007 with film-noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini; interview from 2007 with Paul Mason, editor of “Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular Culture”; 2017 program on the various acting styles in BRUTE FORCE featuring film scholar David Bordwell; stills gallery; trailer; an essay by film critic Michael Atkinsa 1947 profile of producer Mark Hellinger, and rare correspondence between Hellinger and Production Code administrator Joseph Breen.
- Link to:
- FII catalog | AFI catalog