{"product_id":"aba-blu-brute007-cc318","title":"Brute Force (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs hard-hitting as its title, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrute Force\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was one of Jules Dassin’s first forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama with a scathing critique of the punitive American incarceration 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea riveting Hume Cronyn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrute Force\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eSPECIAL FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Blu-ray: New 4K digital restoration by TLEFilms Film Restoration \u0026amp; Preservation Services, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the DVD: Restored high-definition digital transfer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio commentary from 2007 featuring film-noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview from 2007 with Paul Mason, editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaptured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProgram from 2017 on\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrute Force\u003c\/em\u003e’s array of acting styles featuring film scholar David Bordwell (Blu-ray only)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStills gallery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson, a 1947 profile of producer Mark Hellinger, and rare correspondence between Hellinger and Production Code administrator Joseph Breen over the film’s content\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCover by Lucien S. Y. Yang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unobstructed View","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41280886898888,"sku":"CC3181BD","price":53.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/products\/bruteforce.jpg?v=1641678424","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/aba-blu-brute007-cc318","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}