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30 June 1947 (USA) moreTagline:
Mark Hellinger's POWER PACKED PICTURE! (re-release print ad - mostly caps) morePlot:
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard. full summary | full synopsisNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Spring Preview: A Repertory Calendar for the Coasts (From IFC. 18 February 2009, 2:17 PM, PST)
Dassin, Hershfeld To Show Early Work
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 11 October 2001)
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Nothing's OK! Never was ,never will! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Burt Lancaster | ... | Joe Collins | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | Capt. Munsey | |
| Charles Bickford | ... | Gallagher | |
| Yvonne De Carlo | ... | Gina Ferrara | |
| Ann Blyth | ... | Ruth | |
| Ella Raines | ... | Cora Lister | |
| Anita Colby | ... | Flossie | |
| Sam Levene | ... | Louie Miller #7033 | |
| Jeff Corey | ... | 'Freshman' Stack | |
| John Hoyt | ... | Spencer | |
| Jack Overman | ... | Kid Coy | |
| Roman Bohnen | ... | Warden A.J. Barnes | |
| Sir Lancelot | ... | Calypso | |
| Vince Barnett | ... | Muggsy | |
| Jay C. Flippen | ... | Hodges (guard) |
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Certification:
Norway:16 | UK:A (cut) (original rating) | West Germany:16 (nf) | USA:Approved (PCA #12441) | Finland:K-16 | Australia:PGFun Stuff
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When Munsey is beating the reporter for information on the escape, he plays the overture to Wagner's "Tannheuser". Perhaps a reference to Hitler's love of Wagner. moreGoofs:
Continuity: During a scene in the cell, Jeff Corey's character is washing his hair. His hair alternates between lathered and not lathered. moreQuotes:
Gallagher: Those gates only open three times. When you come in, when you've served your time, or when you're dead! moreFAQ
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One of the best prison movies ever made.Jules Dassin's direction is so strong ,so precise,so mind-boggling it packs a real wallop.Hume Cronyn gives a subdued but extremely scary portrayal of a sadistic brute.Always in a suave voice,always saying "I want to help you",there's only one way for him:the hard one.Burt Lancaster is equally effective as a tough inmate .But the whole cast cannot be too highly praised.
The cast and credits read :"the women from outside" .There are four flashbacks which really fit into the movie.All of them last barely two or three minutes but they could provide material for four other movies. The first one (Flossie's ) verges on farce ,it is the comic relief of a desperate movie and we need it!Then the "fur coat" segment which is some kind of Cinderella turned film noir.The third one,perhaps the less interesting (everything is relative!), features Yvonne De Carlo as an Italian girl during the war the former soldier was in love with .And finally Burt Lancaster's story, he tries to find money to pay his girlfriend's operation.
These flashbacks are not gratuitous:all that is left to those men is memories .Besides,the last line tells us something like that:"nobody will escape!nobody!" More than ten years before ,Dassin had shown what French director Jacques Becker would do in his famous prison movie "le trou" (1960) : the prison as a metaphor of the human condition.
There are a lot of scenes which will leave you on the edge of your seat.My favorite scene: the informer's death while Lancaster is securing his alibi with the doc.But the final is awesome too,something apocalyptic.