{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Grip of Evil | image = The Grip of Evil.jpg | caption = Promotional poster | director = W.A.S. Douglas<br>Harry Harvey | producer = Balboa Amusement Producing Company<br>E. D. Horkheimer<br>H. M. Horkheimer | writer = Douglas Bronston | story = Louis Tracy | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Pathé Exchange | released = {{film date|1916|7|17}} | runtime = 14 chapters | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''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.<ref>[http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GripOfEvil1916.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Grip of Evil''] at silentera.com</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Blum |first=Daniel |title=Pictorial History of the Silent Screen |publisher=Grosset & Dunlap |year=1953 |page=120 |isbn=0-399-50667-5}}</ref> The melodramatic film serial was unusual in its critique of everyday habits and society and with episodes with unhappy endings.<ref>{{cite book |last=Singer |first=Ben |title=Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts |publisher=Columbia University Press |series=Film and Culture |year=2001 |location=New York City |page=217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dGImyLghqk8C |isbn=0-231-11328-5}}</ref>
==Cast== *Jackie Saunders as Jessie *Roland Bottomley as John Burton *Charles Dudley *Gordon Sackville *Philo McCullough *Gloria Payton *Myrtle Reeves *Tom Morgan
==Chapter titles== # Fate # The Underworld # The Upper Ten # The Looters # The Way of a Woman # The Hypocrites # The Butterflies # In Bohemia # The Dollar Kings # Down to the Sea # Mammon and Moloch # Into the Pit # Circumstantial Evidence # Humanity Triumphant
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|The Grip of Evil}} *{{IMDb title|id=0006746}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grip of Evil, The}} Category:1916 films Category:1916 drama films Category:1916 lost films Category:1916 American films Category:1916 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent serial films Category:English-language drama films Category:Lost American silent drama films Category:Pathé Exchange film serials