The Magnificent Brute
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Directed by	John G. Blystone
Written by	Lewis R. Foster Owen Francis Bertram Millhauser
Produced by	Edmund Grainger Charles R. Rogers
Starring	Victor McLaglen
Cinematography	Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by	Ted J. Kent
Music by	Arthur Lange
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	October 11, 1936 (1936-10-11)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Magnificent Brute is a 1936 American drama film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Victor McLaglen, Binnie Barnes and Jean Dixon.^[1] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Albert S. D'Agostino and Jack Otterson.^[2]

Plot

Steve Andrews gets himself at a steel mill but soon makes an enemy of fellow worker Bill Morgan by winning a competition as the most productive worker and then beating him at arm wrestling. He wins the admiration of the landlady of the boarding house and her ten-year old son but then disappoints them both by moving to another lodging and taking up with Della, the girlfriend of his rival worker. Eventually he is able to redeem himself.

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