El bruto (1953)

English title: The Brute

A slum's landlord issues a note of eviction to all the slum's tenants so that he can sell the land. Some tenants will not take this quietly, and that's when the titular character -- an employee at a slaughterhouse and the landlord's protégé -- enters the picture as an agent of dissuasion to the rebellious tenants.

As IMDB user dbdumonteil remarked, this has parallels with Frankenstein; perhaps it's even closer to The Golem, being the Marxism and Class Consciousness analysis of that story. The plot practically writes itself once the premise is established, but it is a nice watch all the same, with the usual cruel touches which are the director's trademark.

Rating: 61