Brute Force (1914)

Brute Force

1914

Adventure Action Drama History Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

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

Edwin Curglot as Caveman

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

Jennie Lee as Rejected Cavewoman

Mae Marsh as Lilywhite

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

Wilfred Lucas as Brute Force

William J. Butler as Priscilla's Father (Prologue)