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10/16/01
Brute Force (1947)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.5/10
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... [More]
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Jules Dassin
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Reviews for Brute Force
1 - 12 (sorted by source)
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
The escape sequence has the spatial intricacy of the heist in Dassin's Rififi, but the tone is tougher, bleaker, and more suspenseful.
04/08/08
Top CriticMoralista, 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
Starring Burt Lancaster and cast against type Hume Cronyn, Dassin's first foray into noir is one of the bleakest and most powerful crime prison melodramas ever made, an existential chronicle that also serves as an allegory of American society at large
03/31/09
No review available.
03/24/05
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
Outdated prison film.
10/22/04
This is one of Dassin's best films.
06/24/06
First rate all the way.
04/08/08
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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