The Brute Man (1946) |
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| Director(s) | Jean Yarbrough |
| Producer(s) | Ben Pivar |
| Top Genres | Horror, Thriller/Suspense |
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Rondo Hatton
(as Hal Moffet AKA 'The Cr...)
Donald MacBride
(as Police Captain M. J. D...)
Peter Whitney
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The Brute Man (1946) was a Horror - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Jean Yarbrough and produced by Ben Pivar.
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THE NADIR OF THE BRUTE MAN
Thought I would spend sometime writing about the Universal studios film THE BRUTE MAN (1946) as it seems to get ignored by many people as it is perhaps the lowest point from what the studio had produced. This picture as perhaps a few of you know had Rondo Hatton as ‘The Creeper” in what ... Read full article
THE NADIR OF THE BRUTE MAN
Thought I would spend sometime writing about the Universal studios film THE BRUTE MAN (1946) as it seems to get ignored by many people as it is perhaps the lowest point from what the studio had produced. This picture as perhaps a few of you know had Rondo Hatton as ‘The Creeper” in what ... Read full article
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Police Dispatcher: Attention all cars, attention all cars: general alarm. Car 22, go to 733 Spring Avenue, it's a 341, that is all.
Police Dispatcher: Attention all cars, attention all cars: general alarm. Car 22, go to 733 Spring Avenue, it's a 341, that is all.
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Tristam Coffin, who appears briefly as a police lieutenant, doubles as the voice of the radio reporter.
Rondo Hatton passed away before the film was released. Universal was so embarrassed by its shameless exploitation of Hatton's disfiguring illness (which led to his death) that it sold all rights to the finished film to "B" studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC).
In England, the rating of H (Horrific) was created specifically for this film, and no one under 16 was allowed to see it.
Although produced by Universal Pictures, the company was in the process of a complicated merger with William Goetz's International Pictures (merger completed July 31, 1946). To complicate matters, J. Arthur Rank's United World Pictures had a hand in the studio's management since the previous November, when this picture was still in production. With the impending change in management, studio brass dictated that B-pictures would no longer be produced. As a result, this poorly made low budget horror film became an embarrassment and it was sold to PRC after completion.
Completed in November 1945, released by PRC a year later on October 1,1946 (Rondo Hatton's final performance). This was a sequel to "House of Horrors", completed in September 1945. In between, Hatton shot "The Spider Woman Strikes Back" in October, all 3 features only seeing release after his death in February 1946.Hatton had first played The Creeper in the SHERLOCK HOLMES feature "The Pearl of Death"(1944),unrelated to the two follow-ups.