The Brute (1920)

Directed by

Oscar Micheaux

Genre

drama film, silent film, race film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boxer faces struggles in a racially charged society. The film follows his personal and professional battles, though no complete copy of this silent drama survives today.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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