The Usurer's Grip (1912)

1912 · Silent film · 15 min · dir. Charles Brabin

• Short
• Crime
• Drama

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Synopsis

Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.

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Details

Director

Charles Brabin

Writer

Theodora Huntington

Studio

Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

Released

1912-10-04

Running time

15 minutes

Cast & crew

• Charles Brabin Director
• WWalter Edwin
• Gertrude McCoy
• EEdna May Weick
• Charles Ogle
• LLouise Sydmeth
• Robert Brower

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