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Title:

Brute force [videorecording] / Mark Hellinger Productions ; directed by Jules Dassin ; produced by Mark Hellinger.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Prisons.--Drama.
Prisons--Officials and employees--Drama.
Prisoners--Drama.
Prisons.--Drama.
Prisons--Officials and employees--Drama.
Prison films.
Feature films.
Videorecordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Prison--Feature.

Other Authors:

Hellinger, Mark.
Dassin, Jules, 1911- ,
Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994.
Cronyn, Hume.
Bickford, Charles, 1889-1967.
De Carlo, Yvonne.
Patterson, Robert.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Universal-International (Firm)

Notes:

Based on a story by Robert Patterson. Originally released as a motion picture in 1947 by Universal-International Pictures. Special features include: 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. Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne DeCarlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Anita Colby, Sam Levene, Howard Duff, Art Smith, Jeff Corey.

Summary:

Joe Collins, along with his fellow inmates, live 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?

Series:

Criterion collection ; 383

ISBN:

9781934121306
1934121304

OCLC:

(OCoLC)84662409

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)