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The Brute Breaker
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5785 feet
Directed by Lynn F. Reynolds (Lynn Reynolds)

Cast: Frank Mayo [Louis Graintaire], Harry S. Northrup [Baptiste Navet], Kathryn Adams [Annette Bosseut], Jack Curtis [Annette’s father], Burwell Hamrick [Little Jean], Bert Sprotte [La Blanc], Frank Brownlee [Norres], Charles Le Moyne [Pierre]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Special Attactions Series]. / Scenario by Dorothy Barrett and Lynn F. Reynolds (Lynn Reynolds), from the novelette The Brute Breaker by Johnston McCulley. Cinematography by Philip E. Rosen (Phil Rosen). / © 3 October 1919 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP14259]. Released 20 October 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novelette was subsequently filmed as The Ice Flood (1926).

Drama: Action.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0517.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 12 November 2009.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0517; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 33 : ClasIm-226 p. 40 : Website-AFI.