The Grip of Evil

Directed byW.A.S. Douglas
Harry Harvey

Written byDouglas Bronston

Story byLouis Tracy

Produced byBalboa Amusement Producing Company
E. D. Horkheimer
H. M. Horkheimer

The Grip of Evil
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Directed by	W.A.S. Douglas Harry Harvey
Written by	Douglas Bronston
Story by	Louis Tracy
Produced by	Balboa Amusement Producing Company E. D. Horkheimer H. M. Horkheimer
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	July 17, 1916 (1916-07-17)
Running time	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]