Trivia / The Brute Man

• Missing Episode: The Brute Man was quietly sold to Producers Releasing Corporation in August 1946 and published in October that year under the PRC banner. In 1947, PRC was disbanded and that was the last seen of The Brute Man. Madison Pictures picked up from PRC's downfall and handled cinema re-releases and television debuts for the orphaned films until 1955, but The Brute Man wasn't among them. When the film also wasn't included in the 1958 Son of Shock package, meaning Universal hadn't re-obtained it either, it came to be believed that The Brute Man was lost. This assumption was corrected in 1982 when Admit One released it on Betamax and VHS.
• Orphaned Reference:
  • The police investigation only concerns itself with three murder victims prior to the death of the pawnbroker: Professor Cushman, Joan Bemis, and Jimmy. Yet when shortly before his own murder Jimmy listens to the radio, mention is made of five murder victims. It is unknown who the other three were supposed to be.
  • One poster proclaims "No woman safe from his crushing arms..." which does not represent the Creeper's motives or selection of victims in The Brute Man in the slightest. It does, however, reasonably reflect his behavior in House of Horrors. The two films have an intertwined development history, so this tagline seems to be a remnant of that period.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: The plot of the film is semi-biographical as the story revolves around a handsome college athlete scarred and turned into a monster by an accident. While Rondo Hatton suffered from acromegaly, Hollywood did claim Rondo was disfigured from inhaling gas in the trenches during World War I, just as Hal suffered the effects of a science experiment gone wrong in the movie.