The Usurer's Grip

Name: The Usurer's Grip
Director: Charles Brabin
Released: 1912-10-04
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Walter Edwin, Gertrude McCoy, Edna May Weick, Charles Ogle, Louise Sydmeth

5.7(3)191215mEN

Directed by Charles Brabin

Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.