Graft (1915 serial)

Infobox Film
name = Graft


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director = George Lessey
Richard Stanton
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writer = Joe Brandt
Walter Woods
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starring = Harry Carey
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released = 11 December, 1915
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country = USA
language = Silent
English intertitles
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imdb_id = 0005581

"Graft" is a 1915 film serial featuring Harry Carey. This serial is considered to be lost.cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/Graft1915.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Graft |accessdate=2008-02-10 |work=Silent Era]

Cast

* Harry Carey - Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12). Carey took over lead from Hobart Henley from the fourth chapter.
* Hobart Henley - Bruce Larnigan (Episodes 1-3)
* Jane Novak - Dorothy Maxwell
* Richard Stanton - Robert Harding
* Glen White - Stanford Stone
* Nanine Wright - Mrs. Larnigan
* Mark Fenton - Roger Maxwell
* Mina Cunard - Kitty Rockford
* Jack Connolly - Ben Travers (as Jack F. Connolly)
* Jack Abbott - Jim Stevens (as Jack F. Abbott)
* Wadsworth Harris - Mark Gamble
* Margaret Mayburn
* Eddie Polo
* J. Edwin Brown - (as Edward Brown)
* William T. Horne - (as W.T. Horne)
* Hayward Mack
* Burton Law - (as Bert Law)
* L. M. Wells - Roger Maxwell
* Fred Hearne
* Yona Landowska
* Rex De Rosselli
* Malcolm Blevins
* Violet Schram
* Rosita Marstini
* Fred Montague - (as Frederick Montague)
* E.P. Evers
* Andrew Arbuckle
* Gypsy Sartoris
* Hector Sarno - (as Hector V. Sarno)
* Mary Ruby
* Will E. Sheerer - Dudley Larnigan (as William Sheerer)
* Jack Curtis - Murphy
* Helen Orr
* Burton S. Wilson
* Cecil Spooner - (as Mr. Spooner)
* C.W. Bachman - (as Charles Bachman)
* Elmer Wilson
* Edward Clark - (as E. Clark)
* Frank MacQuarrie
* George Bonn
* Mary Haines
* George A. McDaniel - (as Mr. McDaniels)

Production

In an experiment, the plot was written in a round robin by several writers for both print and film. [cite book
last = Stedman
first = Raymond William
title = Serials: Suspense and Drama By Installment
origyear = 1971
publisher = University of Oklahoma Press
isbn = 9780806109275
pages = pp. 35
chapter = 2. The Perils of Success ] Each chapter was written by a different writer: Anna Katherine Green, Irvin S. Cobb, Louis Joseph Vance, Leroy Scott, Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, James Philips Oppenheim, C.N. Williamson, A.M. Williamson, Wallace Irwin, Reginald Wright Kaufman, James Francis Dwyer, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, Joe Mitchell Chapple, Frederick Isham, George Bronson Howard, Nina Wilcox Putnam and Hugh Weir.

Chapter titles

#Liquor and the Law
#The Tenement House Evil
#The Traction Grab
#The Power of the People
#Grinding Life Down
#The Railroad Monopoly
#America Saved from War
#Old King Coal
#The Insurance Swindlers
#The Harbor Transportation Trust
#The Illegal Bucket Shops
#The Milk Battle
#Powder Trust and the War
#The Iron Ring
#The Patent Medicine Danger
#The Pirates of Finance
#The Queen of the Prophets
#The Hidden City of Crime
#The Photo Badger Game
#The Final Conquest

ee also

* Harry Carey filmography
* List of film serials
* List of film serials by studio

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0005581|title=Graft