The Brute
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer
A. B. Decomathiere
Sam Langford
Susie Sutton
Lawrence Chenault
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Herbert Lanyon is thought to be dead after a shipwreck, and his fiancée 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.]
Director
Oscar Micheaux
Cast
Evelyn Preer
A. B. Decomathiere
Sam Langford
Susie Sutton
Lawrence Chenault
Laura Bowman
Mattie Edwards
Alice Gorgas
Virgil Williams
Marty Cutler
Foy Clements
Louis Schooler
Harry Plater
E. G. Tatum
Al Gaines
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
One contemporary source states that this black independent film was based on a play, but no evidence to support this statement has been located. Another contemporary source states that the film's length was 8,000 feet, not seven reels. The film May have been cut to six reels sometime after it opened. In the records of the George P. Johnson Negro Film Collection, the cameraman was identified only as "Whitie." Foy Clements May actually be the actress Flo Clements.
