Brute Force (1947)





At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.


Vintage magazines

2 films complets 18, 15-12 1948

Books with substantial mentioning of Brute Force

James Robert Parish
Prison Pictures from Hollywood, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1991

David Fury
The Cinema History of Burt Lancaster
Minneapolis, MN, 1989

Books with an entry on Brute Force

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Articles with substantial mentioning of Brute Force

Robert Porfirio, Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995), in: Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver and James Ursini (eds.), Film noir reader 3, New York, 2002