THE USURER'S GRIP
Título original: The Usurer's Grip
Director: Bannister Merwin
Guion: Theodora Huntington, Arthur H. Ham
Reparto: Walter Edwin, Gertrude McCoy, Edna May Weick, Charles Ogle, Louise Sydmeth, Robert Brower
Año: 1912
País: USA
Duración: 15 min.
Producción: Edison Company & Russell Sage Foundation
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Argumento: Un padre de familia cae en las garras de un usurero tras pedirle dinero para curar a su hija enferma.
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Título original: The Usurer's Grip
Director: Bannister Merwin
Guion: Theodora Huntington, Arthur H. Ham
Reparto: Walter Edwin, Gertrude McCoy, Edna May Weick, Charles Ogle, Louise Sydmeth, Robert Brower
Año: 1912
País: USA
Duración: 15 min.
Producción: Edison Company & Russell Sage Foundation
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Argumento: Un padre de familia cae en las garras de un usurero tras pedirle dinero para curar a su hija enferma.
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La copia contiene una segunda cadena de audio con comentario de Lendol Calder.
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This Edison Company film production is part of a collection entitled "American Film Archives: Vol. 3: Disc 1". The DVDs deal specifically with American short films that deal with various social issues. These are the sort of films that usually would be forgotten or lost had it not been for some film preservationists work. Now this set certainly isn't for everyone, as the content is a bit dry. However, for history teachers (like myself) and cinemaniacs (again, that would be me), it's an invaluable set. As the films are all silent, they actually are very watchable along with the optional audio commentary--which gives nice background information.
THE USURER'S GRIP is, not surprisingly, a film decrying the evil of usurers--people who charge ridiculously high (and illegal) interest rates for loans. A family is in need of some extra money. They see an ad promising low-interest loans and easy payment plans. However, after taking out this loan, the family finds they've been conned and are unable to make their payments. A female employee of the usurer shows up at the poor man's job to bawl him out and ruins his reputation in front of his boss. The result of this is that the employee is fired--and falls even further behind on the loan! Then a "trailer" is then hired to follow the man to his next job and the lady comes once again to bawl him out and hound him--making it impossible to pay the loan when he could get fired again. However, the new boss is a swell fella and helps the man get a low-interest loan to pay off the original loan. In the meantime, however, the loan shark arrives at the same time at the man's house and the wife watches as they cart away his furniture--even the bed where his sick child is sleeping! What are they to do?! Well, see it for yourself to find out if the family can be saved.
Overall, not a particularly fun film to watch but an important film historically. Probably NOT a film for the casual viewer, however.
