The Grip of Evil

The Grip of Evil
The Grip of Evil
	Promotional poster
Directed by	W.A.S. Douglas; Harry Harvey
Written by	Douglas Bronston
Story by	Louis Tracy
Produced by	Balboa Amusement Producing Company; E. D. Horkheimer; H. M. Horkheimer
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	July 17, 1916;
Running time	14 chapters
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Grip of Evil is a lost 1916 American silent film serial directed by W.A.S. Douglas and Harry Harvey. It was distributed through Pathé Exchange.^[1]^[2] The melodramatic film serial was unusual in its critique of everyday habits and society and with episodes with unhappy endings.^[3]

Cast

Jackie Saunders as Jessie
Roland Bottomley as John Burton
Charles Dudley
Gordon Sackville
Philo McCullough
Gloria Payton
Myrtle Reeves
Tom Morgan

Chapter titles

Fate
The Underworld
The Upper Ten
The Looters
The Way of a Woman
The Hypocrites
The Butterflies
In Bohemia
The Dollar Kings
Down to the Sea
Mammon and Moloch
Into the Pit
Circumstantial Evidence
Humanity Triumphant

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Grip of Evil at silentera.com
^ Blum, Daniel (1953). Pictorial History of the Silent Screen. Grosset & Dunlap. p. 120. ISBN 0-399-50667-5.
^ Singer, Ben (2001). Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts. Film and Culture. New York City: Columbia University Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-231-11328-5.

External links

The Grip of Evil at IMDb

[1] Progressive Silent Film List: The Grip of Evil at silentera.com

[2] Blum, Daniel (1953). Pictorial History of the Silent Screen. Grosset & Dunlap. p. 120. ISBN 0-399-50667-5.

[3] Singer, Ben (2001). Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts. Film and Culture. New York City: Columbia University Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-231-11328-5.

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