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The Grasp of Greed
Also known as Mr. Meeson’s Will in the United Kingdom
(1916) United States of America
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, through 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 1.33:1 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: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [incomplete positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Castaways - Disinheritances - Inheritances - Islands - Law: Courts - Nephews - Publishers - Ships - Shipwrecks - Tattoos - Treasure maps - Water: Oceans, Seas - Wills - Writers: Novelists
Listing updated: 7 October 2012.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1675; Edmonds-BigU pp. 75, 81, 82; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 21; Spehr-American p. 100; Weaver-Twenty p. 76 : with additional information provided by Manish Patwari.
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