Brute Force (1914) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Release, runtime and language

1914 · 36 mins

Directed by

D.W. Griffith

Starring

Harry Carey, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Wilfred Lucas, William J. Butler, Alfred Paget

A quirky psychological comedy riffing on Darwinian evolution. At a party, a nervous man in a tux reads a book about primitive humans after being spurned by a pretty woman. He imagines losing his girlfriend to a brute, inventing a club‑weapon, becoming tribal leader, battling winged lizards, snakes, a dinosaur and a rival tribe led by “Monkeywalk.” When his tribe is captured, he discovers the bow and arrow to turn the tide.