The Usurer's Grip (1912)

Release Date:	1912, October 4
Directors:	Charles Brabin
Production:	Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Cast:	Robert Brower, Charles Ogle, Louise Sydmeth, Gertrude McCoy, Walter Edwin, Edna May Weick

Overview:

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.