The Grip

Release Date: 1909-08-04

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.

Rating: 4 / 10

Cast

Louis Bouwmeester

as Jean-Marie Hardouin

Ko van Sprinkhuijsen

as Hippolyte

Mien de la Mar

as Rose

Raaf Bouwmeester

as Emile

Frits Bouwmeester jr.

as Etienne