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The Brute

6.1

/10

311 people rated

1977•1 h 30 m•United Kingdom

A battered fashion model attempts to escape from the clutches of her sadistic husband.

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Cast (18)

Nicholas Barnes

Charlotte Cornwell

Sylvester Morand

Ricki Stewardson

Police Sergeant

Community House Woman

Carol Cleveland

Betty Huntley-Wright

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Hana Tadesse

29/05/2023 14:06

source: The Brute

Sabry ✌️Douxmiel❤️☺️🍯

23/05/2023 06:53

Sarah Douglas is a model married to urbane, upper middle class Julian Glover, who also happens to beat her up at seemingly arbitrary intervals (the film opens with him waking her up from a deep sleep by beating her with a belt). She thinks he needs therapy, but when he refuses and his behavior becomes increasingly erratic, she leaves him and takes refuge in the flat of her photographer friend Bruce Robinson (yeah, the writer/director of "Withnail and I") and his girlfriend. This is a really strange film. On the one hand, it seems to be a fairly well-meaning depiction of spousal abuse focusing on the difficulty women have dealing with police and a court system that's stacked against them. Glover is a fairly crazy and outrageous example of a domestic abuser (at one point he suddenly puts on her clothes and chases her, and he later tries to brand her), but the film also depicts a working class couple with an abusive husband who is far from outrageous and really disturbing in his casual violence. The film uses this second couple to highlight that while Douglas has a lot of resources and can leave fairly easily, many women do not have this luxury. But ... this film is also a sexploitation film. There's a truly heroic amount of nudity in this film and some moderately explicit sex scenes, a lot of this involves Douglas. (When Douglas is fleeing the initial assault in, her breasts tumble out of her nightgown) Speaking charitably, this film was made during a particularly difficult period in the British film industry, so I'm pretty sure that the sex angle was needed to sell a film with a particularly difficult subject matter (one not really dealt with yet in American films). Still, it makes for a pretty odd and discordant experience.

Tdk Macassette

23/05/2023 06:53

The Brute is written and directed by Gerry O'Hara. It stars Julian Glover, Sarah Douglas, Roberta Gibbs, Bruce Robinson, Suzanne Stone, Kenneth Nelson, Jenny Twigge and Nicholas Barnes. Music is by Kenneth V. Jones and cinematography by Dennis C. Lewiston. Model Diane Shepherd (Douglas) is emotionally stuck in a violent marriage to her husband Tim (Glover), who in his constant paranoia accuses her of infidelity. Finally having enough, she finds shelter with photographer Mark (Robinson) and his girlfriend Carrie (Stone). Meeting up with another abused wife, Millie (Twigge), Diane begins to find hope for the future, but then Tim informs her that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their young son and make it impossible for her to see him freely. Tricky subject matter inevitably invokes tricky human reactions, something writer and director Gerry O'Hara knows only too well. Given the "X" certificate upon its release in the UK, the film was promptly vilified by most critics and caused uproar in press and women's group circles. It seems that back in 1977 the issue of domestic abuse should not be put up as a filmic subject. Things didn't help that the marketing department played it up as a horror movie, something O'Hara wasn't aiming for, whilst some mischievous critics angled it as sensationalist soft-core *! Viewed now, and it's become something of a rare movie, there's flaws aplenty for sure, but one of them isn't being sensationalist for sensationalist's sake. Tonally the picture is all over the place, one minute it's grabbing you by the throat and shaking you, the next it's almost like we have been transported into some swanky kitchen sink drama. In fact quite early on it gets a little bit sketchy as to where its heart is, but once Diane makes the decision to leave Teddy (how inappropriately cuddly a name can be eh?!), and we get brought into Millie's awful world (Twigge excellent) then pic finds its rhythm and makes telling and dramatic points. The violence here is tame by today's standards, unsurprisingly of course, but it's still terrifying, especially with the Millie scenes, but I reiterate, this is not a horror movie per se. Don't seek this out if you are looking for something like The Stepfather, this is a social concern movie about horror inflicted domestically, there is a big difference. Lead cast members are more than up to the task of bringing the story home safely, though some of the support work is decidedly amateurish, and those irked by PC issues in movies are likely to draw back their bow and arrows ready to fire off a poisonous dart. A journalist friend of mine went to a special educational double bill screening of The Brute and The Burning Bed (Farrah Fawcett TV movie) in the early 90s. She said that at the end of The Brute the audience applauded and it was a hot-bed of debate in the bar afterwards. I didn't feel like clapping myself when I watched it yesterday, I felt exhausted yet strangely uplifted. You see here's the thing, it's all in the finale, in its hopeful denouement, and with the realisation this is not about The Brute of the title, this is about the women. Very much so. No masterpiece is this, but a very smart and misunderstood piece of cinema. 7/10

Pharrell Buckman

23/05/2023 06:53

A difficult film with some nasty moments but then is hardly surprising with a title like The Brute. Gerry O'Hara worked in the business most of his life and between the 50s and 60s worked up to assistant director with such as, Otto Preminger, Carol Reed, Tony Richardson and Laurence Oliver. In1963 he was director for the first That Kind of Girl (1963) and was a sexual titillation while moralising about the dangers of STDs and later The Pleasure Girls (1965) written by O'Hara and directed with a swinging 60s scene. He made more films and then came up with his new one of The Brute and written and directed but never had much of an audience. It is a strange and is surely exploitation with the film at the opening with the most terrible of her husband burst into the middle of the night and drunk beats her savagely. There is another scene later on and she tries help. The film then becomes more of how it is the bad about men.

AlexiaVillma

23/05/2023 06:53

The British film industry in the seventies was in a very strange place, which ironically paved the way for a number of films you just can't imagine being made in any other decade, or under any other circumstances. With the wealthy American backers out of the picture and the home video boom lurking just around the corner, the seventies remains perhaps British cinema's most insane and strangely compulsive decade, where bona-fide cult classics such as the Wicker Man and Get Carter rub alongside dirt-cheap sex flicks like 1972's the Love Box and Derren Nesbitt's ill-fated the Amorous Milkman, and big budget Bond films and Lew Grade-sponsored splashy blockbusters flickered onto fleapit screens only recently vacated by the 'moral obscenities' of the bad boys of British horror, Pete Walker and Norman J. Warren. The Brute, with its uneasy combination of gloss and glamour, sordid violence and kitchen-sink realism, dingy location filming and titles apparently rendered in transfer lettering, is seventies Britain to its toenails, although the introduction from a psychiatrist seems to hark back to the 'white coat' sex films of the previous decade, where narration from a practising doctor was a crafty way of getting nudity and naughty bits past the ever-vigilant censor. Other concessions to contemporary trends are apparent in a bit of pro- feminist black power arse-kicking doled out to a serial abuser, the overall appearance of Bruce 'Withnail and I' Robinson's sympathetic hippy photographer, and the inevitable spacious house apparently in the middle of nowhere, which (as anyone who's seen A Clockwork Orange or Straw Dogs will readily testify) was seventies cinema shorthand both for comfortable living, and the nagging feeling that something horrible was about to happen. The biggest problem with the film is that it's not really sure what it wants to be, and as a result, the mood of the piece is all over the place, swinging wildly from shadowy, Gothic-horror theatricals to quasi-documentary bleakness and back again, buoyed by the largely fine performances. Some sensible points are made, there's food for thought to spare and we are never once asked (or allowed) to be sympathetic toward the abusers, but the plot feels strangely tacked on and the denouement lamentably botched. The Brute opened briefly in early 1977 to a storm of protests and accusations of bad taste and quickly vanished, though it did receive a video release in the early eighties on the Brent Walker label and a region one DVD release seems to be doing the rounds in collector's circles. It's a difficult film to enjoy - it's frequently a difficult film to watch - but fans of obscure British cinema with a taste for the offbeat should definitely track it down and remind themselves just how eclectic (if decidedly strapped for cash) the domestic film industry really was in that most conflicted of decades.

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23/05/2023 06:53

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Sameep Gulati ❤️⚽️

14/03/2023 00:45

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14/03/2023 00:45

Sarah Douglas is a model married to urbane, upper middle class Julian Glover, who also happens to beat her up at seemingly arbitrary intervals (the film opens with him waking her up from a deep sleep by beating her with a belt). She thinks he needs therapy, but when he refuses and his behavior becomes increasingly erratic, she leaves him and takes refuge in the flat of her photographer friend Bruce Robinson (yeah, the writer/director of "Withnail and I") and his girlfriend. This is a really strange film. On the one hand, it seems to be a fairly well-meaning depiction of spousal abuse focusing on the difficulty women have dealing with police and a court system that's stacked against them. Glover is a fairly crazy and outrageous example of a domestic abuser (at one point he suddenly puts on her clothes and chases her, and he later tries to brand her), but the film also depicts a working class couple with an abusive husband who is far from outrageous and really disturbing in his casual violence. The film uses this second couple to highlight that while Douglas has a lot of resources and can leave fairly easily, many women do not have this luxury. But ... this film is also a sexploitation film. There's a truly heroic amount of nudity in this film and some moderately explicit sex scenes, a lot of this involves Douglas. (When Douglas is fleeing the initial assault in, her breasts tumble out of her nightgown) Speaking charitably, this film was made during a particularly difficult period in the British film industry, so I'm pretty sure that the sex angle was needed to sell a film with a particularly difficult subject matter (one not really dealt with yet in American films). Still, it makes for a pretty odd and discordant experience.

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14/03/2023 00:45

A difficult film with some nasty moments but then is hardly surprising with a title like The Brute. Gerry O'Hara worked in the business most of his life and between the 50s and 60s worked up to assistant director with such as, Otto Preminger, Carol Reed, Tony Richardson and Laurence Oliver. In1963 he was director for the first That Kind of Girl (1963) and was a sexual titillation while moralising about the dangers of STDs and later The Pleasure Girls (1965) written by O'Hara and directed with a swinging 60s scene. He made more films and then came up with his new one of The Brute and written and directed but never had much of an audience. It is a strange and is surely exploitation with the film at the opening with the most terrible of her husband burst into the middle of the night and drunk beats her savagely. There is another scene later on and she tries help. The film then becomes more of how it is the bad about men.

Nana Kwadwo jnr 🇬

14/03/2023 00:45

The Brute is written and directed by Gerry O'Hara. It stars Julian Glover, Sarah Douglas, Roberta Gibbs, Bruce Robinson, Suzanne Stone, Kenneth Nelson, Jenny Twigge and Nicholas Barnes. Music is by Kenneth V. Jones and cinematography by Dennis C. Lewiston. Model Diane Shepherd (Douglas) is emotionally stuck in a violent marriage to her husband Tim (Glover), who in his constant paranoia accuses her of infidelity. Finally having enough, she finds shelter with photographer Mark (Robinson) and his girlfriend Carrie (Stone). Meeting up with another abused wife, Millie (Twigge), Diane begins to find hope for the future, but then Tim informs her that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their young son and make it impossible for her to see him freely. Tricky subject matter inevitably invokes tricky human reactions, something writer and director Gerry O'Hara knows only too well. Given the "X" certificate upon its release in the UK, the film was promptly vilified by most critics and caused uproar in press and women's group circles. It seems that back in 1977 the issue of domestic abuse should not be put up as a filmic subject. Things didn't help that the marketing department played it up as a horror movie, something O'Hara wasn't aiming for, whilst some mischievous critics angled it as sensationalist soft-core *! Viewed now, and it's become something of a rare movie, there's flaws aplenty for sure, but one of them isn't being sensationalist for sensationalist's sake. Tonally the picture is all over the place, one minute it's grabbing you by the throat and shaking you, the next it's almost like we have been transported into some swanky kitchen sink drama. In fact quite early on it gets a little bit sketchy as to where its heart is, but once Diane makes the decision to leave Teddy (how inappropriately cuddly a name can be eh?!), and we get brought into Millie's awful world (Twigge excellent) then pic finds its rhythm and makes telling and dramatic points. The violence here is tame by today's standards, unsurprisingly of course, but it's still terrifying, especially with the Millie scenes, but I reiterate, this is not a horror movie per se. Don't seek this out if you are looking for something like The Stepfather, this is a social concern movie about horror inflicted domestically, there is a big difference. Lead cast members are more than up to the task of bringing the story home safely, though some of the support work is decidedly amateurish, and those irked by PC issues in movies are likely to draw back their bow and arrows ready to fire off a poisonous dart. A journalist friend of mine went to a special educational double bill screening of The Brute and The Burning Bed (Farrah Fawcett TV movie) in the early 90s. She said that at the end of The Brute the audience applauded and it was a hot-bed of debate in the bar afterwards. I didn't feel like clapping myself when I watched it yesterday, I felt exhausted yet strangely uplifted. You see here's the thing, it's all in the finale, in its hopeful denouement, and with the realisation this is not about The Brute of the title, this is about the women. Very much so. No masterpiece is this, but a very smart and misunderstood piece of cinema. 7/10