BRUTE FORCE (1947) - starring Burt Lancaster - Film Noir Classics

Name: BRUTE FORCE (1947) - starring Burt Lancaster - Film Noir Classics
Start: 2025-11-10T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Cinema Arts Centre

Schedule

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Cinema Arts Centre | Huntington, NY

Film Noir Classics
BRUTE FORCE (1947)
on the big screen!
Monday, November 10th at 7:30 PM
Hosted by professor Foster Hirsch
$20 Public | $13 Members
As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was one of Jules Dassin’s first forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama with a scathing critique of the American prison system at its heart. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey (Hume Cronyn). Only Collins’s dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey’s chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, Brute Force builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom, and asks the question of who society’s real brutes are.