Ally Oop-style cave men battle over women, leading to a prehistoric arms race and the triumph of brains over brawn. Brute Force (a.k.a. Primitive Man) is a simplistic short directed by the legendary D.W. Griffith. There is not much to the film: it consists mostly of a never-ending brawl between the 'with-women tribe' and the 'without-women tribe' but it may be best known for the first 'live action' dinosaur put on screen. The cast includes a number of actors featured in Griffith's silent epics (e.g. Birth of a Nation, Intolerance) as well as Harry Carey, Lionel Barrymore, and Elmo Lincoln (the first celluloid 'Tarzan'). I watched a washed-out 20 minute version on You-tube and the film likely deserves a better presentation. Amazingly, only ten years passed between this primitive vision of antediluvian Earth and Willis O'Brien's masterful dinosaurs in "The Lost World". A must see for cinephiles, but likely a pass for most others (and so problematic to rate).
Review of The Primitive Man
