The Magnificent Brute Reviews

Routine love triangle situation starring McLaglen, Barnes, and Hall as parties whose paths cross in the steel mills. McLaglen plays a burly steelworker smitten with gold-digger Barnes, despite the longing glances of boardinghouse-owner Dixon. Hall is McLaglen's coworker and buddy, until he is also taken with Barnes' vamp act. The conflict really heats up when a collection taken for the wife of a deceased mill worker is squandered by Hall in a stupid bet. This causes Hall to take it on the lam with Barnes, but the kindly Dixon persuades them to stay and face the music. For the climax, McLaglen rescues Dixon's son from nearly being boiled alive when the kid falls into a crucible about to be filled with molten metal. This act unites McLaglen and Dixon and everything is peachy at the end. The film is handsomely mounted and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Interior Decoration.