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The Magnificent Brute (1936 film)

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'The Magnificent Brute' is a 1936 American drama film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Victor McLaglen, Binnie Barnes and Jean Dixon.Freese p.18 It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson.

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Steve Andrews gets himself at a steel mill but soon makes an enemy of fellow worker Bill Morgan by winning a competition as the most productive worker and then beating him at arm wrestling. He wins the admiration of the landlady of the boarding house and her ten-year old son but then disappoints them both by moving to another lodging and taking up with Della, the girlfriend of his rival worker. Eventually he is able to redeem himself.

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* Freese, Gene. 'Classic Movie Fight Scenes: 75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914-1989'. McFarland, 2017.


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