The escape sequence has the spatial intricacy of the heist in Dassin's Rififi, but the tone is tougher, bleaker, and more suspenseful.
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04/08/08
Brute Force (1947)
91 %
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Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 10
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Joe Collins, an inmate of Westgate prison, schemes with a group of convicts to breakout. He's intent on reaching his love, who does not know he's in prison but will not have a lifesaving operation until he's at her side. The escape plan goes... [More]
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Jules Dassin
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Reviews for Brute Force
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Top Critic Bristling, biting dialog by Richard Brooks paints broad cameos as each character takes shape under existing prison life.
04/08/08
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Moralista, misógino e maniqueísta, este é um filme terrivelmente datado que tem como principal mérito o fato de ter sido fundamental para alavancar a carreira de Lancaster.
06/18/07
The title says it all in Jules Dassin's bare-knuckle prison thriller, one of the most brutal films about caged men ever made.
04/26/07
Producer Joan Harrison, who seems to have profited from a long association with Alfred Hitchcock, and Director Irving Pichel have created mounting suspense which comes to a distinctly surprising and explosive climax as the jury brings its verdict.
03/25/06
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Flashbacks are used to enable the injection of love interests, but the still claustrophobic action and escape attempt make for an explosive climax.
05/24/03
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