The Grip of Iron (1920)
- Directed by
- Bert Haldane
- Genre
- silent film, crime film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Parisian lawyer's clerk commits robbery and murder to pay for his daughter's expensive habits. The film follows his crimes and the consequences for those around him.
old-fashionedgrimtensebleakmodestnoir-ishdeliberate
What happens
The Grip of Iron is a 1920 British silent crime film directed by Bert Haldane and starring George Foley, Malvina Longfellow and James Lindsay. It was based on a play of the same title by Arthur Shirley, which was in turn based on a novel by Adolphe Belot. A Parisian lawyer's clerk robs and strangles a series of victims in order to fund his daughter's extravagant lifestyle. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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