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| editing = | studio = Micheaux Film Corp. | distributor = Micheaux Film Corp. | released = 1920 | runtime = 7 reels | country = United States | language = Silent | budget = | gross = }} ''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.〔(“Progressive Silent Film List: The Brute,” SilentEra.com )〕 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.〔(“The cutting gaze of Oscar Micheaux,” UWM Leader, February 8, 2006 )〕 ==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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Brute (1920 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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