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The Usurer (1910)

The Usurer poster
Directed by
D. W. Griffith
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
17 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A moneylender preys on desperate people. The film follows his harsh dealings.

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What happens

The Usurer è un cortometraggio muto del 1910 diretto da David W. Griffith per la Biograph Company. Di genere drammatico, il film ha come protagonista un usuraio e l'ambiente in cui si muove. Griffith impiega molti dei suoi attori preferiti di quel periodo: vi appaiono Linda Arvidson (moglie di Griffith), George Nichols (nei panni del protagonista), Jeanie Macpherson, che tre anni dopo inizierà con successo una carriera di sceneggiatrice e la giovane Mary Pickford in quello di una ragazzina invalida. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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