The Brute (1920 film)

The Brute is a 1920 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. No print of the film is known to exist and the production is believed to be a lost film. The original version of the film included a scene where the boxer defeats a white rival, but Micheaux was forced to remove the scene by censors.

Plot
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.
 * —American Film Institute

Cast

 * Evelyn Preer – Mildred Carrison
 * A. B. DeComathiere – Bull Magee
 * Sam Langford – Tug Wilson
 * Susie Sutton – Aunt Clara
 * Lawrence Chenault – Herbert Lanyon
 * Laura Bowman – Mrs. Carrison
 * Mattie Edwards – Guest in "The Hole"
 * Alice Gorgas – Margaret Pendleton
 * Virgil Williams – Referee
 * Marty Cutler – Sidney Kirkwood
 * Floy Clements – Irene Lanyon
 * Louis Schooler – Klondike
 * Harry Plater
 * E. G. Tatum
 * Al Gaines