Sunday 7 August 2016

Brute Force (1947)



At a tough penitentiary a prisoner plans to rebel against the power-mad chief guard.

Relentlessly dark, tough and intense prison drama with a large cast of characters and subplots (including flashbacks) that never loses the focus to the main plot and its inevitable ending.

Halliwell**: "Vivid and rather repellent prison melodrama leading to an explosive climax; its savagery seemed at the time to break fresh ground."

Maltin***1/2: "Tingling, hard-bitten prison film with its few cliches puched across solidly."


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