Brute Force (1947)

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Brute Force

“Iron-jawed Burt Lancaster plays a tortured prisoner aching to get out to reunite with his ailing wife (Ann Blyth). We understand and sympathize with him, but not just with him but all the men in his cell block. When they riot against the despotic guard (Hume Cronyn), we understand their motivating factors as we have spent plenty of time with them.   A touch manipulative, sure, especially as so many of their infractions seem so small in the grand scheme, and that is the main problem with Brute Force. What seemed shocking, even daring, in 1947 now appears outdated. If, as Jules Dassin argues, prisons reflect the wider society, and that’s a valid argument to make, then American society has a rot at its core. Nobody ever escapes, as one character argues, and the entire thing is wrapped u” read more

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