Brute Force Plot
A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book enacted: Weakhands loses his girlfriend to Bruteforce, but chances upon a design for a weapon to vanquish his rival and win her back. His tribe sees this and sets him up as their leader. With the club, he fends off various creatures (a winged lizard, a snake, a dinosaur) and a rival tribe led by Monkeywalk. The women even manage to repel an attack. But the rival tribe discovers the secret of the club themselves, and capture the women. Weakhands, sitting in despair, chances upon a new weapon: the bow and arrow.
Brute Force Cast
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as Harry Faulkner (Prologue) / Weakhands (The Old Days) -
as Lilywhite -
as Priscilla's Father (Prologue) -
as Brute Force -
as Caveman -
as In Club (Prologue) / Tribesman (The Old Days) -
as Rejected Cavewoman -
as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)
User Review
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Brute Force (1914): D.W. Griffith’s Glimpse into Primitive Struggles and Early Cinema's Evolution
D.W. Griffith’s Brute Force is a fascinating early exploration of prehistoric life, depicting humanity’s evolutionary struggles in an age before recorded history. Released in 1914, the film dramatizes a fictionalized battle between primitive humans and anthropomorphic apes—an allegorical clash between Homo sapiens and their evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals. Though brief in runtime, Brute Force offers a glimpse into Griffith’s experimental storytelling and demonstrates early cinema’s ambition to venture beyond contemporary narratives into speculative depictions of human... |
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