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The Usurer’s Grip
(1912) American
B&W : One reel
Directed by Bannister Merwin
Cast: Walter Edwin [Thomas Jenks, the husband], Gertrude McCoy [his wife], Edna May Weick [their little girl], Charles Ogle [A.B. Fink, the usurer], Louise Sydmeth [the ‘bawling-out’ woman], Robert Brower [Robert Emerson, Jenks’ second employer], [?] ? [the doctor]
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production in cooperation with The Russell Sage Foundation, Division of Remedial Loans; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Bannister Merwin, from a story by Theodora Huntington. / Released 5 October 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.
Drama.
Survival Status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute / Michael Donley collection) [35mm positive].
Listing updated: 23 November 2007.
References: Film viewing : Sloan-Loud pp. 2, 8, 26-27, 152 : Website-IMDb.
Home Video: DVD.
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