Graft (1915 serial)

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Graft
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Spanish language advertisement under the title Soborno
Directed by George Lessey
Richard Stanton
Written by Joe Brandt
Walter Woods
Starring Harry Carey
Distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • December 11, 1915 (1915-12-11)
Running time
20 2 reel episodes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Graft is a 1915 American film serial directed by George Lessey and Richard Stanton featuring Harry Carey. This serial is considered to be lost. [1]

Contents

Cast

Production

In an experiment, the plot was written in a round robin by several writers for both print and film. [2] Each chapter was written by a different writer: Anna Katharine Green, Irvin S. Cobb, Louis Joseph Vance, Leroy Scott, Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, James Oppenheim, C.N. Williamson, A.M. Williamson, Wallace Irwin, Reginald Wright Kaufman, James Francis Dwyer, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, Joe Mitchell Chapple, Frederic S. Isham, George Bronson Howard, Nina Wilcox Putnam and Hugh Weir. [1]

Chapter titles

  1. Liquor and the Law
  2. The Tenement House Evil
  3. The Traction Grab
  4. The Power of the People
  5. Grinding Life Down
  6. The Railroad Monopoly
  7. America Saved from War/Busting The Steel Trust
  8. Old King Coal
  9. The Insurance Swindlers
  10. The Harbor Transportation Trust
  11. The Illegal Bucket Shops
  12. The Milk Battle
  13. Powder Trust and the War
  14. The Iron Ring
  15. The Patent Medicine Danger
  16. The Pirates of Finance
  17. The Queen of the Prophets
  18. The Hidden City of Crime
  19. The Photo Badger Game
  20. The Final Conquest [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Progressive Silent Film List: Graft". silentera.com. Retrieved February 10, 2008.
  2. Stedman, Raymond William (1971). "2. The Perils of Success" . Serials: Suspense and Drama By Installment. University of Oklahoma Press. pp.  35. ISBN   978-0-8061-0927-5.