Jonas Mekas’s film captures The Living Theatre’s stage production of The Brig, an unflinching portrait of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps jail in Japan in 1957. Over the course of a single day, prisoners endure relentless drills, abuse, and dehumanization, exposing the brutality of military discipline with stark immediacy.
Cast
Warren Finnerty
Lintz
Henry Howard
Cpt. Grace
Tom Lilard
Warden
James Tiroff
Prisoner No.1
Steven Ben Israel
Prisoner No.2
Rufus Collins
Prisoner No.3
Gene Lipton
Prisoner No.4
Michael Elias
Prisoner No.5
William Shari
Prisoner No.6
Viktor Allen
Prisoner No.7
George Bartenieff
Prisoner No.8
Gene Gordon
Prisoner No.9
Mark Duffy
Prisoner No.10
Henry Proach
New Prisoner
Carl Einhorn
Prisoner Chaser
Luke Theodore
Prisoner Chaser
Jim Anderson
Tepperman
Crew
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