Brute Force

Booklet included with the Criterion Collection film "Brute Force" (1947), directed by Jules Dassin. Includes cast and credits; a new essay, "Screws and Proles" by film critic Michael Atkinson; "The Softest Touch in Hollywood", a 1947 profile of producer Mark Hellinger, by Pete Martin (originally published in The Saturday Evening Post on June 28, 1947), and rare correspondence between Hellinger and Joseph Breen of the Motion Picture Academy Production Code Office.