- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- 98 min
Rotten Tomatoes95%Metacritic80IMDb7.5
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Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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Grave, earnest, resolved and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Burt LancasterJoe Collins
- Hume CronynCapt. Munsey
- Charles BickfordGallagher
- Yvonne De CarloGina Ferrara
- Ann BlythRuth
- Ella RainesCora Lister
- Anita ColbyFlossie
- Sam LeveneLouie Miller #7033
- Jeff Corey'Freshman' Stack
- John HoytSpencer
Crew
- Jules DassinDirector
- Richard BrooksScreenplay
- William H. DanielsDirector of Photography
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- Edward CurtissEditor
- Mark HellingerProducer
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