Brute Force is very much a product of that time right after World War II when the world was reeling from the revelations of Nazi atrocities — when we had just discovered the depths to which our fellow human beings can go.
Tags: Brute Force, Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Jules Dassin
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This Criterion DVD represents a rare opportunity to compare multiple screen adaptations of the same story: Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers. There are three adaptations on this two-disc set: Robert Siodmak’s 1946 Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1958 student film entitled simply The Killers, and Don Siegel’s 1964 adaptation, originally slated to be the [...]
Tags: Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Criterion, Don Siegel, Lee Marvin, Robert Siodmak
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