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The Brute (1920 film)
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Oscar Micheaux
| producer = Oscar Micheaux
| writer = Oscar Micheaux
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| cinematography = "Whitie"
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| studio = Micheaux Film Corp.
| distributor = Micheaux Film Corp.
| released = 1920
| runtime = 7 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent
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'The Brute' is a 1920 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux.
No print of the film is known to exist and the production is believed to be a lost film.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/Brute1920.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Brute, SilentEra.com] The original version of the film included a scene where the boxer defeats a white rival, but Micheaux was forced to remove the scene by censors.[http://media.www.uwmleader.com/media/storage/paper980/news/2006/02/08/Aemovies/The-Cutting.Gaze.Of.Oscar.Micheaux-1987495.shtml The cutting gaze of Oscar Micheaux, UWM Leader, February 8, 2006]
Plot
Herbert Lanyon is thought to be dead after a shipwreck, and his fiance Mildred Carrison is forced by her money-minded Aunt Clara into marriage with "Bull" Magee, a gambler and underworld boss who mistreats Mildred. After Herbert returns, Magee undergoes financial difficulties that he blames on Mildred and Herbert, and seeks revenge. Herbert and a repentant Aunt Clara, however, free Mildred from Magee, and the lovers are able to marry. A subplot involves boxer "Tug" Wilson, who is ordered by his manager Magee to lay down in the seventeenth round of a prizefight at the film's climax. No other information concerning the plot has been discovered.
:American Film Institute
Cast
*Evelyn Preer Mildred Carrison
*A. B. DeComathiere Bull Magee
*Sam Langford Tug Wilson
*Susie Sutton Aunt Clara
*Lawrence Chenault Herbert Lanyon
*Laura Bowman Mrs. Carrison
*Mattie Edwards Guest in "The Hole"
*Alice Gorgas Margaret Pendleton
*Virgil Williams Referee
*Marty Cutler Sidney Kirkwood
*Floy Clements Irene Lanyon
*Louis Schooler Klondike
*Harry Plater
*E. G. Tatum
*Al Gaines
See also
*List of lost films
Notes
References
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