| “ | Creeper, creeper, creeper... You give ME the creeps! | ” |
| - Mr. Haskins |
- For the episode, see MST3K 702 - The Brute Man.
The Brute Man is a 1946 revenge thriller directed by Jean Yarbrough.
Plot[]
Hal Moffat is murdering those he holds responsible for his disfigured condition, including his former college buddies and a professor of chemistry. He also kills others who cross his path (a delivery boy, a store clerk, etc.).
While on the run from the police, he is befriended by Helen Paige, a blind piano teacher. He develops a warmth for her that inspires him to steal so she may be provided with the money for an operation to restore her sight. The ineffectual authorities are assigned to apprehend him.
Cast[]
- Rondo Hatton as Hal Moffat / The Creeper
- Tom Neal as Clifford Scott
- Jane Adams as Helen Paige
- Tristram Coffin as Police Lieutenant & radio announcer
- Jan Wiley as Virginia Rogers Scott
- Donald McBride as Police Captain Donelly
- Peter Whitney as Lt. Gates
Notes[]
- Rondo Hatton, who played the monstrous "Creeper" in this film and in House of Horrors (1946), was handsome as a young man, but later in life became disfigured by acromegaly, a form of gigantism brought about by unnaturally high levels of human growth hormone produced by a disease of the pituitary gland. Hatton passed away before the film was released. Universal was so embarrassed by its exploitation of Hatton's disfiguring illness (which led to his death) that it sold all rights to the finished film to "B" studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC).
- Was nominated in The Golden Turkey Awards series for Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity. It lost to The Terror of Tiny Town.
MST3K Connections[]
- Tom Neal also portrayed Mickey Moran in Radar Secret Service.
- Fred Coby (young Hal Moffat) also portrayed a pilot in Jungle Goddess.
- Tristram Coffin also portrayed Dr. Foster in The Corpse Vanishes Security Chief Meidel, in The Crawling Hand, and Michael in Radar Secret Service.
- Rodney Bell (unspecified role) also had an unspecified role in The Girl in Lovers Lane.
- Peggy Converse (Mrs. Obringer) also portrayed Flavia McIntire in The Thing That Couldn't Die.
- Pat Costello (Car 22 patrolman) also portrayed an attendant at Alice's wedding in The Corpse Vanishes.
- Alan Foster (jeweler) also had an unspecified role in Stranded in Space.
- Frank O'Connor (policeman at Helen's apartment) also portrayed a policeman in The Corpse Vanishes.
- Cy Schindell (crowd control policeman) also portrayed a Khan's guardsman in Undersea Kingdom.
- Producer Ben Pivar also wrote the story for The Leech Woman.
- Editor Philip Cahn was also editor for Lost Continent.
- Set decorator Russell A. Gausman was also set decorator for This Island Earth, Revenge of the Creature, The Leech Woman, The Mole People, The Deadly Mantis, and The Thing That Couldn't Die.
- Makeup director Jack Pierce was also makeup artist for The Amazing Transparent Man.
- Sound technician Joe Lapis was also sound technician for The Leech Woman.
- Stock music composer William Lava was also composer for Revenge of the Creature and The Deadly Mantis.
- Stock music composer and musical director Hans J. Salter was also stock music composer for Women of the Prehistoric Planet, First Spaceship on Venus (U.S. version), Hercules and the Captive Women (U.S. version), The Human Duplicators, Kitten with a Whip, Revenge of the Creature, and The Thing That Couldn't Die, as well as composer for This Island Earth, The Leech Woman, and The Mole People.
- Stock music composer Paul Sawtell was also composer for The Black Scorpion and The Bubble, as well as having composed stock music used in The Slime People.
- Stock music composer Frank Skinner was also stock music composer for The Phantom Creeps, Kitten with a Whip, Revenge of the Creature, and The Leech Woman.