Graft
AKA Greed in the United Kingdom
(1915) American
B&W : Serial / 20 episodes
Directed by Richard Stanton

Cast: Jane Novak, Harry D. Carey (Harry Carey), Hobart Henley, Glen White, Nanine Wright, Richard Stanton, Hayward Mack, L.M. Wells, W. Horne, Mary Ruby, Edward Brown, Jack Abbott

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Anna Katherine Green, Irvin S. Cobb, Louis Joseph Vance, Leroy Scott, Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, James Philips Oppenheim, C.N. Williamson, A.M. Williamson, Wallace Irwin, Reginald Wright Kaufman, James Francis Dwyer, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, Joe Mitchell Chapple, Frederick Isham, George Bronson Howard, Nina Wilcox Putnam and Hugh Weir. / Twenty episodes: [1] “Liquor and the Law,” released 11 December 1915; [2] “The Tenement House Evil”; [3] “The Traction Grab”; [4] “The Power of the People”; [5] “Grinding Life Down”; [6] “The Railroad Monopoly”; [7] “America Saved from War”; [8] “Old King Coal”; [9] “The Insurance Swindlers”; [10] “The Harbor Transportation Trust”; [11] “The Illegal Bucket Shops”; [12] “The Milk Battle”; [13] “Powder Trust and the War”; [14] “The Iron Ring”; [15] “The Patent Medicine Danger”; [16] “The Pirates of Finance”; [17] “The Queen of the Prophets”; [18] “The Hidden City of Crime”; [19] “The Photo Badger Game”; [20] “The Final Conquest.” / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / A different writer of repute wrote each separate episode. Henley played the male lead for the first three episodes; the role was then taken over by Carey. The serial was released in the United Kingdom in 1915 by The Trans-Atlantic Film Company.

Drama.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Serials

Listing updated: 30 December 2004.

References: Lahue-Continued pp. 36, 163, 285; Spehr-American p. 4; Stedman-Serials p. 36; Tarbox-Lost pp. 232, 233, 254 : Website-SerSq.