The Grip of Evil explained

The Grip of Evil
Director:	W.A.S. Douglas Harry Harvey
Producer:	Balboa Amusement Producing Company E. D. Horkheimer H. M. Horkheimer
Story:	Louis Tracy
Distributor:	Pathé Exchange
Runtime:	14 chapters
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

The Grip of Evil is a lost 1916 American silent film serial directed by W.A.S. Douglas and Harry Harvey. It was distributed through Pathé Exchange.^{[1] [2]} The melodramatic film serial was unusual in its critique of everyday habits and society and with episodes with unhappy endings.^[3]

Cast

• Jackie Saunders as Jessie
• Roland Bottomley as John Burton
  • • • Charles Dudley Gordon Sackville Philo McCullough Gloria Payton
• Myrtle Reeves
• Tom Morgan

Chapter titles

1. Fate
2. The Underworld
3. The Upper Ten
4. The Looters
5. The Way of a Woman
6. The Hypocrites
7. The Butterflies
8. In Bohemia
9. The Dollar Kings
10. Down to the Sea
11. Mammon and Moloch
12. Into the Pit
13. Circumstantial Evidence
14. Humanity Triumphant

Notes and References

1. http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GripOfEvil1916.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Grip of Evil
2. Book: Blum, Daniel . Pictorial History of the Silent Screen . Grosset & Dunlap . 1953 . 120 . 0-399-50667-5.
3. Book: Singer, Ben . Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts . Columbia University Press . Film and Culture . 2001 . New York City . 217 . 0-231-11328-5.