Brute Force

Jules Dassins' Brute Force is one of the American director's greatest films, beginning a magnificent series of classic film noirs - Brute Force in 1947, The Naked City (1948), Thieves' Highway (1949), Night and the City (1950) through to Rififi in 1955. The story follows 6 prison inmates (led by Burt Lancaster) planning on escaping the iron-fist regime of sadistic prison captain Munsey (Hume