Kick-Back Friday: #87

Brute Force (1947): A deeply moody prison noir, photographed by black-and-white master William Daniels. 

Joe Collins (Burt Lancaster*) and his cellmates are mentally and physically tormented by the sadistic chief guard, Captain Munsey (Hume Cronyn). But when Munsey assigns the prisoners to the dreaded drain-pipe detail, the group plans their dramatic escape.

* In his 2nd movie, after The Killers.