The Usurer's Grip

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Director: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.

The Usurer's Grip (1912)