Brute Force

Brute Force

36 mins | Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, History | April 24, 1914

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

36 mins | Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, History | April 24, 1914

Brute Force
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.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Biograph Company
Original title Brute Force
Directors D.W. Griffith
Writers Frank E. Woods

Cast

Robert Harron

as Harry Faulkner (Prologue) / Weakhands (The Old Days)

Mae Marsh

as Lilywhite

William J. Butler

as Priscilla's Father (Prologue)

Wilfred Lucas

as Brute Force

Edwin Curglot

as Caveman

Alfred Paget

as In Club (Prologue) / Tribesman (The Old Days)

Jennie Lee

as Rejected Cavewoman

Harry Carey

as In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days) (uncredited)