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Brute Force

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Introduction:
"Think "Shawshank Redemption" was a tough prison flick? It was a fairy tale compared with Jules Dassin's 1947 classic starring Burt Lancaster!"


1. Who were "Brute Force's" writer, producer and cinematographer?
    Richard Brooks, Mark Hellinger, William Daniels
    Jules Furthman, George Jessel, Lee Garmes
    DeWitt Bodeen, Val Lewton, Nicholas Musuraca
    Earl Felton, Stanley Rubin, George Diskant


2. What's the name of the prison?
    Gotham State Penitentiary
    Dimmesdale Prison
    Bayside Prison
    Westgate Penitentiary


3. What's the prison's most salient feature?
    It looks like a medieval castle.
    It's on an island connected to the mainland by a bridge.
    It's built on top of a sheer mountain.
    It has four iron gates on each of its four walls.


4. What's being built at the prison, that figures importantly in the movie's plot?
    a gymnasium
    a drainpipe
    a swimming pool
    a latrine


5. Who plays "Calypso" James, the West Indian prisoner, who acts as a singing Greek Chorus?
    Peter Tosh
    Bob Marley
    Jimmy Cliff
    Sir Lancelot


6. What does Joe Collins (Lancaster) witness in the film's opening sequence?
    a fellow inmate shot trying to escape
    a fellow prisoner's corpse taken to burial
    a guard killed by an inmate
    a riot by the prisoners


7. Two informing inmates are executed in the film. Who's the first to die?
    Wilson
    Lister
    Gallagher
    Miller


8. Besides heading a prison gang, what other prison enterprise does Gallagher direct?
    prison book club
    prison newspaper
    prison garden
    prison track team


9. In the first of four flashbacks, who is the woman who crosses conman Spencer?
    Flossie
    Phyllis
    Veda
    Cora


10. Waht's the movie the cons see while Lister commits suicide over his wife?
    High Sierra
    The Egg And I
    Cover Girl
    Top Hat


11. In the infirmary, what message does dying con Regan give Collins and who does it refer to?
    East Gate, Gallagher
    West Wall, Kid Coy
    Hill 633, Soldier
    South Tower, Spencer


12. What has put Collins' love Ruth in her wheelchair?
    cancer
    a car crash
    Multiple Sclerosis
    a bullet in her back


13. When Munsey tortures Miller, what music is playing?
    Holst's "Mars The God of War"
    Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture
    Ravel's "Bolero"
    Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"


14. Who's the informer who spills the escape plot?
    "Soldier"
    Kid Coy
    Stack
    Spencer


15. Collins and Gallagher escape at the end.
    True
    False


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