The Brute Man his non-flashback scenes. Jane Adams was cast as the blind pianist Helen Paige. Adams had appeared in several Universal Pictures films before, including the Lon Chaney, Jr. film "House of Dracula" (1945). Jan Wiley was cast as Scott's wife, Virginia. Although Wiley had appeared in several movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s, "The Brute Man" marked one of her final film performances. It was also recalled as one of her most memorable film appearances along with another Universal Pictures B horror film, "She-Wolf of London". However, her performance in "The Brute Man" proved to be a less than memorable one
Man Is Wolf to Man thrust into his self-made grave, Bardach waits for the impending shot, all the while wondering how it was that he had come to this place. "The night and earth and sleep and death had merged. All felt the same." In so far as "Man Is Wolf to Man" is the story of man's brutality to man, popular criticism tended to compare it favorably to similar historical works, most notably Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago", while at the same time pointing toward its ultimately uplifting tale, not only of man's ability to survive, but also to assist others when seemingly at their