Brute Force
1947 ‧ Noir/Crime ‧ 1h 38m
Released from solitary confinement, prisoner Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster) learns that his supportive wife, Ruth (Ann Blyth), is refusing surgery to treat her potentially deadly cancer, unless Joe can be by her side after the operation. But while...
Release date: August 1947 (USA)
Director: Jules Dassin
Story by: Robert Patterson
Screenplay: Richard Brooks
Distributed by: Universal Pictures and Distributors Corporation of America
Box office: $2.2 million (US rentals)