
Dead of Night(1945)
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.


“No woman was safe from his crushing arms...”
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.

Rondo Hatton
Hal Moffet AKA 'The Creeper'

Tom Neal
Clifford Scott
Jan Wiley
Virginia Rogers Scott

Jane Adams
Helen Paige

Donald MacBride
Police Captain M. J. Donelly

Peter Whitney
Police Lieutenant Gates
Fred Coby
Young Hal Moffet
Janelle Johnson Dolenz
Joan Bemis (as JaNelle Johnson)
Mary Ann Bricker
Mary Ann Obringer (uncredited)

Tristram Coffin
Police Lieutenant / voice of radio announcer (uncredited)
The Brute Man is a horror, thriller, crime film released in 1946 exploring themes of piano lessons, black and white, revenge motive, deformed man, blind woman, laboratory accident. Directed by Jean Yarbrough, it stars Rondo Hatton, Tom Neal, Jan Wiley. A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condition.
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