Graft (1915 serial)

Graft is a 1915 American film serial directed by George Lessey and Richard Stanton featuring Harry Carey. This serial is considered to be lost.[1]

Graft
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Directed byGeorge Lessey
Richard Stanton
Written byJoe Brandt
Walter Woods
StarringHarry Carey
Distributed byUniversal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • December 11, 1915 (1915-12-11)
Running time
20 2 reel episodes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Cast
  • Harry Carey as Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12). Carey took over lead from Hobart Henley from the fourth chapter.
  • Hobart Henley as Bruce Larnigan (Episodes 1-3)
  • Jane Novak as Dorothy Maxwell
  • Richard Stanton as Robert Harding
  • Glen White as Stanford Stone
  • Nanine Wright as Mrs. Larnigan
  • Mark Fenton as Roger Maxwell
  • Mina Cunard as Kitty Rockford
  • Jack Connolly as Ben Travers (credited as Jack F. Connolly)
  • Jack Abbott as Jim Stevens (credited as Jack F. Abbott)
  • Wadsworth Harris as Mark Gamble
  • Margaret Mayburn
  • Eddie Polo
  • J. Edwin Brown (credited as Edward Brown)
  • William T. Horne (credited as W.T. Horne)
  • Hayward Mack
  • Burton Law (credited as Bert Law)
  • L. M. Wells as Roger Maxwell
  • Fred Hearne
  • Yona Landowska
  • Rex De Rosselli
  • Malcolm Blevins
  • Violet Schram
  • Rosita Marstini
  • Fred Montague (credited as Frederick Montague)
  • E.P. Evers
  • Andrew Arbuckle
  • Gypsy Sartoris
  • Hector Sarno (credited as Hector V. Sarno)
  • Mary Ruby
  • Will E. Sheerer as Dudley Larnigan (credited as William Sheerer)
  • Jack Curtis as Murphy
  • Helen Orr
  • Burton S. Wilson
  • Cecil Spooner (credited as Mr. Spooner)
  • C.W. Bachman (credited as Charles Bachman)
  • Elmer Wilson
  • Edward Clark (credited as E. Clark)
  • Frank MacQuarrie
  • George Bonn
  • Mary Haines
  • George A. McDaniel (credited as Mr. McDaniels)

Production

In an experiment, the plot was written in a round robin by several writers for both print and film.[2] Each chapter was written by a different writer: Anna Katharine Green, Irvin S. Cobb, Louis Joseph Vance, Leroy Scott, Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, James Oppenheim, C.N. Williamson, A.M. Williamson, Wallace Irwin, Reginald Wright Kaufman, James Francis Dwyer, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, Joe Mitchell Chapple, Frederic S. Isham, George Bronson Howard, Nina Wilcox Putnam and Hugh Weir.[1]

Chapter titles
  1. Liquor and the Law
  2. The Tenement House Evil
  3. The Traction Grab
  4. The Power of the People
  5. Grinding Life Down
  6. The Railroad Monopoly
  7. America Saved from War/Busting The Steel Trust
  8. Old King Coal
  9. The Insurance Swindlers
  10. The Harbor Transportation Trust
  11. The Illegal Bucket Shops
  12. The Milk Battle
  13. Powder Trust and the War
  14. The Iron Ring
  15. The Patent Medicine Danger
  16. The Pirates of Finance
  17. The Queen of the Prophets
  18. The Hidden City of Crime
  19. The Photo Badger Game
  20. The Final Conquest[1]
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See also

References
  1. "Progressive Silent Film List: Graft". silentera.com. Retrieved February 10, 2008.
  2. Stedman, Raymond William (1971). "2. The Perils of Success". Serials: Suspense and Drama By Installment. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 35. ISBN 978-0-8061-0927-5.
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