The Usurer's Grip

Release Date: 1912-10-04

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.

Rating: 4.5 / 10

Cast

Walter Edwin

as Thomas Jenks

Gertrude McCoy

as Mrs. Thomas Jenks

Edna May Weick

as The Jenks' Little Girl

Charles Ogle

as Manager of the Loan Office

Louise Sydmeth

as The 'Bawler-Out'