The Grasp of Greed
AKA Mr. Meeson’s Will in the United Kingdom
(1916) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Joseph de Grasse

Cast: C.N. Hammond (C. Norman Hammond) [John Meeson], Louise Lovely [Alice Gordon], Jay Belasco [Eustace, Meeson’s nephew], Gretchen Lederer [Lady Holmhurst], Lon Chaney [Jimmie]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated (The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated). / Scenario by Ida May Park, from the novel Mr. Meeson’s Will by H. Rider Haggard. / © 21 June 1916 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP8549]. Released 17 July 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Mr. Meeson’s Will (1915).

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1675, and in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 21.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Keywords: Castaways - Disinheritances - Inheritances - Islands - Law: Courts - Nephews - Publishers - Ships - Shipwrecks - Tattoos - Treasure maps - Water: Oceans, Seas - Wills - Writers: Novelists

Listing updated: 25 June 2008.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1675; Edmonds-BigU pp. 75, 81, 82; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 21; Spehr-American p. 100; Weaver-Twenty p. 76.