A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.
Harry Carey
- In Womanless Tribe (The Old Days)
- (uncredited)
John T. Dillon
- In Club (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
Frank Evans
- In Club (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
- …
Harry Hyde
- In Club (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
J. Jiquel Lanoe
- In Club (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
- …
Elmo Lincoln
- In Club (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
- …
Charles Hill Mailes
- Valet (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
- …
Joseph McDermott
- In Club (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
- …
W.C. Robinson
- Valet (Prologue)
- (uncredited)
- …
Kate Toncray
- Tribeswoman (The Old Days)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPerhaps the earliest live-action film to feature dinosaurs and humans. An herbivorous Ceratosaurus is briefly featured in the film.
- GoofsThe Ceratosaurus featured is eating vegetation, while the dinosaur was actually a carnivore.
- ConnectionsFeatures Man's Genesis (1912)
Featured review
Primitive but influential
Ally Oop-style cave men battle over women, leading to a prehistoric arms race and the triumph of brains over brawn. Brute Force (a.k.a. Primitive Man) is a simplistic short directed by the legendary D.W. Griffith. There is not much to the film: it consists mostly of a never-ending brawl between the 'with-women tribe' and the 'without-women tribe' but it may be best known for the first 'live action' dinosaur put on screen. The cast includes a number of actors featured in Griffith's silent epics (e.g. Birth of a Nation, Intolerance) as well as Harry Carey, Lionel Barrymore, and Elmo Lincoln (the first celluloid 'Tarzan'). I watched a washed-out 20 minute version on You-tube and the film likely deserves a better presentation. Amazingly, only ten years passed between this primitive vision of antediluvian Earth and Willis O'Brien's masterful dinosaurs in "The Lost World". A must see for cinephiles, but likely a pass for most others (and so problematic to rate).
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- jamesrupert2014
- Aug 9, 2018
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- Runtime32 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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