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The Usurer
(1910) American
B&W : One reel / 994 feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: George O. Nicholls, Grace Henderson, Alfred Paget, Anthony O’Sullivan, Eddie Dillon, Francis J. Grandon, Kate Bruce, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, Mary Pickford
Biograph Company production; distributed by Biograph Company. / Scenario by D.W. Griffith. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 18 August 1910 by Biograph Company [J144488]. Released 15 August 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot in Biograph’s 14th Street Studio, New York, New York, on 10 and 15 July 1910. The Before Hollywood Project restored the film’s original intertitles to restoration prints.
Drama.
Survival Status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive], and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Listing updated: 19 January 2007.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 42; Everson-American p. 50; Leyda-Before pp. 10, 23, 82, 141; Sloan-Loud pp. 17, 25-26, 28, 152; Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-AFI.
Home Video: DVD.
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