The Usurer's Grip
MovieTitle | The Usurer's Grip |
User score | 4.5 |
Release date | Oct 4, 1912 |
Genre | |
Director | Charles Brabin |
Production country | US |
Production companies | Thomas A. Edison, Inc. |
Run time | 15 min. |
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.