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Graft
Also known as Greed in the United Kingdom
(1915-1916) United States of America
B&W : Serial / 20 chapters / 40 reels
Directed by Richard Stanton and George A. Lessey
Cast: Hobart Henley [Bruce Larnigan (chapters 1-3)], Harry D. Carey (Harry Carey) [Tom Larnigan (chapters 4-12)], Jane Novak [Dorothy Maxwell], Richard Stanton [Robert Harding], Glen White [Stanford Stone], Nanine Wright [Mrs. Larnigan], Mark Fenton [Roger Maxwell], Mina Cunard [Kitty Rockford], Jack F. Connolly (Jack Connolly) [Ben Travers], Jack F. Abbott (Jack Abbott) [Jim Stevens], Wadsworth Harris [Mark Gamble], William Sheerer (Will E. Sheerer) [Dudley Larnigan], Jack Curtis [Murphy], L.M. Wells [?] [Roger Maxwell]?, Margaret Mayburn, Eddie Polo, Edward Brown (J. Edwin Brown), W.T. Horne (William T. Horne), Hayward Mack, Bert Law (Burton Law), Fred Hearne, Yona Landowska, Rex De Rosselli, Malcolm Blevins, Violet Schram, Rosita Marstini, Frederick Montague (Fred Montague), E.P. Evers, Andrew Arbuckle, Gypsy Sartoris, Hector V. Sarno, Mary Ruby, Helen Orr, Burton S. Wilson, Mr. Spooner (Cecil Spooner), Charles Bachman (C.W. Bachman), Elmer Wilson, E. Clark (Edward Clark), Frank MacQuarrie, George Bonn, Mary Haines, Mr. McDaniels (George A. McDaniel)
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Richard Stanton. Scenario by Joe Brandt, Walter Woods and [?] Hugh Weir (Hugh C. Weir)?, from screen stories by Anna Katherine Green, Irvin S. Cobb, Louis Joseph Vance, Leroy Scott, Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, James Philips Oppenheim, C.N. Williamson, A.M. Williamson, Wallace Irwin, Reginald Wright Kaufman, James Francis Dwyer, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow (Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow), Joe Mitchell Chapple, Frederick Isham, George Bronson Howard, Nina Wilcox Putnam and [?] Hugh Weir (Hugh C. Weir)? / 20 chapters (two reels each): [1] “Liquor and the Law,” released 11 December 1915; [2] “The Tenement House Evil,” released 18 December 1915; [3] “The Traction Grab,” released 25 December 1915; [4] “The Power of the People,” released 1 January 1916; [5] “Grinding Life Down,” released 8 January 1916; [6] “The Railroad Monopoly,” released 15 January 1916; [7] “America Saved from War,” released 22 January 1916; [8] “Old King Coal,” released 29 January 1916; [9] “The Insurance Swindlers,” released 5 February 1916; [10] “The Harbor Transportation Trust,” released 12 February 1916; [11] “The Illegal Bucket Shops,” released 19 February 1916; [12] “The Milk Battle,” released 26 February 1916; [13] “Powder Trust and the War,” released 5 March 1916; [14] “The Iron Ring,” released 12 March 1916; [15] “The Patent Medicine Danger,” released 19 March 1916; [16] “The Pirates of Finance,” released 26 March 1916; [17] “The Queen of the Prophets,” released 2 April 1916; [18] “The Hidden City of Crime,” released 9 April 1916; [19] “The Photo Badger Game,” released 16 April 1916; [20] “The Final Conquest,” released 23 April 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A different writer of repute wrote the stories for each separate chapter. Henley played the male lead for the first three chapters; the role was then taken over by Carey. The serial was released in the United Kingdom as Greed by The Trans-Atlantic Film Company, Limited, in 1915.
Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Serials
Listing updated: 4 May 2020.
References: Lahue-Continued pp. 36, 163, 285; Spehr-American p. 4; Stedman-Serials p. 36; Tarbox-Lost pp. 232, 233, 254 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.
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