The Grip of Evil

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]

The Grip of Evil
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Directed byW.A.S. Douglas
Harry Harvey
Produced byBalboa Amusement Producing Company
E. D. Horkheimer
H. M. Horkheimer
Written byDouglas Bronston
Story byLouis Tracy
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • July 17, 1916 (1916-07-17)
Running time
14 chapters
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

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
gollark: Though I looked at it a while ago and silicon or germanium might be better.
gollark: Loads of things. The highest-density is data encoded in big diamonds through different isotopes of carbon.
gollark: I mean, if it's fun, why not, but I don't think it's the most effective way to preserve data.
gollark: I prefer to etch my important data on the moon with lasers.
gollark: This is why you have backups.

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.
  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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