The Grip
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Jean-Marie Hardouin is an old man who once was notorious because of the iron grip he exerted on his family but now he is lame. He whiles away his days in a chair in the house of his son and daughter-in-law. He has to see how his adulterous daughter-in-law plots to murder her two foster children and her husband. Jean-Marie can't intervene and because he can't talk he can't warn his own family. Misfortune, tragic developments, and a fatal ending dominated many of the early Dutch fiction films.
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Léon Boedels Director · Jean Sartène Author
First release August 4, 1909 · Produced in Netherlands · Original title De Greep
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Film-Fabriek Anton Nöggerath
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Netherlands
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Original title
De Greep
Original language
Dutch
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Netherlands · August 4, 1909
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