YMMV / Brute Force (1947)

• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Hoo, boy. The booklet for the Criterion Collection DVD has an article laying out point-for-point the parallels in the film to Marxist ideology—read: propaganda. To whit: Munsey Putting on the Reich up to eleven, coupled with the fat, business-suit-wearing warden—a blatant embodiment of notions linking Capitalism ("fat capitalist pigs!") to Fascism; Burt Lancaster as a Working-Class Hero leading a worker's revolt where all the "exploited" prisoners unite, and... Essentially, one gets the impression that this film is the biggest reason Jules Dassin was targeted for blacklisting.

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