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The Grip (1909)

The Grip (1909)

Drama Horror
Release Date: 1909, August 4
Directors: Léon Boedels
Countries: Netherlands
Production: Film-Fabriek Anton Nöggerath
Cast: Louis Bouwmeester, Frits Bouwmeester jr., Ko van Sprinkhuijsen, Mien de la Mar, Raaf Bouwmeester

Overview:

Jean-Marie Hardouin is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his days in a chair in the house of his son and daughter-in-law. He has to see how his adulterous daughter-in-law plots to murder her two foster children and her husband. Jean-Marie can't intervene and because he can't talk he can't warn his own family. Misfortune, tragic developments, and a fatal ending dominated many of the early Dutch fiction films.