The Grip of Iron is a 1920 British silent crime film directed by Bert Haldane and starring George Foley, Malvina Longfellow and James Lindsay.Low p.377 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.
Cast George Foley as Jagon / Simonnet Malvina Longfellow as Cora Jager James Lindsay as Lorenz de Rifas Laurence Tessier as Paul Blanchard Ronald Power as Captain Guerin Ivy King as Marie Guerin Warwick Buckland as Rolf De Belfort John Power as Coucou Moore Marriott as Smiler
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Bibliography Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
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