The Brute Breaker
Cast & Crew
Lynn F. Reynolds
Frank Mayo
Harry Northrup
Kathryn Adams
Jack Curtis
Burwell Hamrick
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Synopsis
At a French Canadian logging camp, stranger Louis Graintaire canoes through impassable rapids to the delight of Little Jean, a crippled boy who hopes that Louis will thrash his tormentor, camp bully Baptiste Navet. That evening Louis arouses Navet's enmity by dancing with Annette Bosseut, the daughter of the camp superintendent. Navet challenges Louis to a fight, but when the day comes, Louis and the boy cannot be found. When Louis returns, Annette and her father accuse him of kidnapping. After three bullies of neighboring camps die while trying to kill Louis, and Navet, repulsed by Annette, sets fire to the forest, Louis knocks Navet unconscious and saves Annette by canoeing through the dangerous rapids. He explains that he is the owner of all the camps and is making the rounds breaking bullies who terrorize the weak. Jean, sent to be cured, returns prancing about with a priest who marries Louis and Annette.
Director
Lynn F. Reynolds
Cast
Frank Mayo
Harry Northrup
Kathryn Adams
Jack Curtis
Burwell Hamrick
Bert Sprotte
Frank Brownlee
Charles Le Moyne
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Scenes in the logging camps were shot near Mt. Shasta, CA. Johnston McCulley's novelette was also the basis of the 1926 Universal film The Ice Flood, directed by George B. Seitz and starring Kenneth Harlan and Viola Dana (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30).
