The Brute
Was met with considerable controversy in the UK media when first released in 1977 due to its graphic depiction of domestic violence & physical spousal abuse.,The sex scenes were heavily cut by British censor James Ferman when first theatrically released in the UK in 1977. the out of print UK BRENT WALKER VHS & US TRINITY DVD versions are also cut (the violent scenes in all versions are uncut). The UK BBFC 2022 limited edition bluray is uncut but minus the psychiatrist prologue. it is however included in the 'special features' section of the bluray (the psychiatrist prologue is included at the film's opening in all previously released versions).,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.,