The Usurer's Grip

15m
4.5

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.

Cast

Walter Edwin
Thomas Jenks
Gertrude McCoy
Mrs. Thomas Jenks
Edna May Weick
The Jenks' Little Girl
Charles Ogle
Manager of the Loan Office
Louise Sydmeth
The 'Bawler-Out'
Robert Brower
The Enlightened Employer

Crew

Charles Brabin
Director
Theodora Huntington
Writer

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