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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Richard Brooks (screenplay)
Robert Patterson (story)
Release Date:
30 June 1947 (USA) more
Tagline:
Mark Hellinger's POWER PACKED PICTURE! (re-release print ad - mostly caps) more
Plot:
At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard. full summary | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
(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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Very realistic more (39 total)
Cast
(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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98 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Norway:16 | UK:A (cut) (original rating) | West Germany:16 (nf) | USA:Approved (PCA #12441) | Finland:K-16 | Australia:PG
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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. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: During the fight in the guard tower between Munsey and Collins, guard Tom seems to have been killed, but the stunt actor Tom Steele who plays him is very clearly doubling Hume Cronyn. more
Quotes:
Spencer: You know, I was just thinking. An insurance company could go flat broke in this prison. more
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Features The Egg and I (1947) more
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I saw this movie in the forties when I was small boy. The only impression then was that it was quite terrifying. Now many years later I watched it again, this time after retiring from working in a prison for 33 years and found a lot of it quite realistic. Some of it was stupid of course, like the ending but overall I could relate to a lot of it.