The Grip of Evil

The Grip of Evil
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Directed byW.A.S. Douglas
Harry Harvey
Written byDouglas Bronston
Story byLouis Tracy
Produced byBalboa Amusement Producing Company
E. D. Horkheimer
H. M. Horkheimer
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • July 17, 1916 (1916-07-17)
Running time
14 chapters
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (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. The melodramatic film serial was unusual in its critique of everyday habits and society and with episodes with unhappy endings.

Cast

Chapter titles

  1. Fate
  2. The Underworld
  3. The Upper Ten
  4. The Looters
  5. The Way of a Woman
  6. The Hypocrites
  7. The Butterflies
  8. In Bohemia
  9. The Dollar Kings
  10. Down to the Sea
  11. Mammon and Moloch
  12. Into the Pit
  13. Circumstantial Evidence
  14. Humanity Triumphant

References

  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. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  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.