Graft is a 1915

1915 in film

The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.* June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors...

 film serial featuring Harry Carey. This serial is considered to be lost

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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Cast

• Harry Carey - Tom Larnigan (Episodes 4-12). Carey took over lead from Hobart Henley from the fourth chapter.
• Hobart Henley
  Hobart Henley
  Hobart Henley was an American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter....
  
   - Bruce Larnigan (Episodes 1-3)
• Jane Novak
  Jane Novak
  -Background:Jane Novak was born in St. Louis, Missouri was born Johana B. Novak, daughter of Joseph, an immigrant from Bohemia, and Barbara Novak. Her father died when she was a child and her mother was left to raise 5 children. Novak attended convent school but ran away with a friend with whom...
  
   - Dorothy Maxwell
• Richard Stanton
  Richard Stanton
  Richard Stanton was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 68 films between 1911 and 1916...
  
   - Robert Harding
• Glen White - Stanford Stone
• Nanine Wright - Mrs. Larnigan
• Mark Fenton
  Mark Fenton
  Mark Fenton was an American actor of the silent era. He had a sturdy theatrical and Broadway career behind him before coming to silent pictures...
  
   - Roger Maxwell
• Mina Cunard - Kitty Rockford
• Jack Connolly - Ben Travers (as Jack F. Connolly)
• Jack Abbott - Jim Stevens (as Jack F. Abbott)
• Wadsworth Harris
  Wadsworth Harris
  Wadsworth Harris was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 46 films between 1911 and 1936.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Mark Gamble
• Margaret Mayburn
• Eddie Polo
  Eddie Polo
  Eddie Polo was an Austro-American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 77 films between 1913 and 1944. Born Edward W. Wyman in Vienna, Austria, Polo died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack....
  
  
• J. Edwin Brown - (as Edward Brown)
• William T. Horne - (as W.T. Horne)
• Hayward Mack
  Hayward Mack
  Hayward Seaton Mack was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 81 films between 1910 and 1921.He was born in Albany, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Burton Law - (as Bert Law)
• L. M. Wells
  L. M. Wells
  L. M. Wells was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 51 films between 1912 and 1922.He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.-Selected filmography:* Vanishing Trails * Runnin' Straight...
  
   - Roger Maxwell
• Fred Hearne
• Yona Landowska
• Rex De Rosselli
  Rex De Rosselli
  Rex De Rosselli , was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 151 films between 1911 and 1926. He was born in Kentucky and died in East Saint Louis.-Selected filmography:* Elmo the Mighty...
  
  
• Malcolm Blevins
• Violet Schram
• Rosita Marstini
• Fred Montague
  Fred Montague
  Fred Montague was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 59 films between 1912 and 1919.He was born in London and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Lure of the Circus...
  
   - (as Frederick Montague)
• E.P. Evers
• Andrew Arbuckle
  Andrew Arbuckle (actor)
  Andrew Arbuckle was an American stage and film actor. He was the brother of Macklyn Arbuckle and cousin of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Gypsy Sartoris
• Hector Sarno
  Hector Sarno
  Hector V. Sarno was an Italian-born American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 183 films between 1912 and 1948.He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Pasadena, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - (as Hector V. Sarno)
• Mary Ruby
• Will E. Sheerer - Dudley Larnigan (as William Sheerer)
• Jack Curtis
  Jack Curtis (actor)
  Jack Curtis was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 157 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* Graft...
  
   - Murphy
• Helen Orr
• Burton S. Wilson
• Cecil Spooner - (as Mr. Spooner)
• C.W. Bachman - (as Charles Bachman)
• Elmer Wilson
• Edward Clark
  Edward Clark (actor)
  Edward Clark was a Russian-born American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 133 films between 1913 and 1955. He was born in Russia and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - (as E. Clark)
• Frank MacQuarrie
  Frank MacQuarrie
  Frank MacQuarrie was an American silent film actor.He was the brother of actors Albert MacQuarrie and Murdock MacQuarrie.-Filmography:* The Lone Hand...
  
  
• 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. Each chapter was written by a different writer: Anna Katherine Green, Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.-Biography:...

, Louis Joseph Vance

Louis Joseph Vance

Louis Joseph Vance was an American novelist, born in Washington, D. C., and educated in the preparatory department of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He wrote short stories and verse after 1901, then composed many popular novels...

, Leroy Scott

Leroy Scott

Leroy Scott was an American writer of novels and screenplays. He was born in Fairmount, Indiana 11 May 1875. His father was a minister with the Religious Society of Friends. He graduated from Indiana University in 1897. His writing career began with three years experience as a reporter; he worked...

, Rupert Hughes

Rupert Hughes

Rupert Hughes was an American historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Missouri. His parents were Felix Turner Hughes and Jean Amelia Summerlin, who were married in 1865. His brother Howard R. Hughes, Sr., co-founded the Hughes Tool Company....

, Zane Grey

Zane Grey

Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the Old West. Riders of the Purple Sage was his bestselling book. In addition to the success of his printed works, they later had second lives and continuing influence...

, James Philips Oppenheim, C.N. Williamson, A.M. Williamson, Wallace Irwin

Wallace Irwin

Wallace Irwin was an American writer. Over the course of his long career, Irwin wrote humorous sketches, light verse, screenplays, short stories, novels, nautical lays, aphorisms, journalism, political satire, lyrics for Broadway musicals, and the libretto for an opera...

, 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

1. Liquor and the Law
2. The Tenement House Evil
3. The Traction Grab
4. The Power of the People
5. Grinding Life Down
6. The Railroad Monopoly
7. America Saved from War
8. Old King Coal
9. The Insurance Swindlers
10. The Harbor Transportation Trust
11. The Illegal Bucket Shops
12. The Milk Battle
13. Powder Trust and the War
14. The Iron Ring
15. The Patent Medicine Danger
16. The Pirates of Finance
17. The Queen of the Prophets
18. The Hidden City of Crime
19. The Photo Badger Game
20. The Final Conquest

See also

• Harry Carey filmography
  Harry Carey filmography
  This is a list of films featuring Harry Carey.-1912:* An Unseen Enemy* Two Daughters of Eve* Friends* So Near, Yet So Far* A Feud in the Kentucky Hills* In the Aisles of the Wild* The One She Loved* The Painted Lady...
  
  
• List of film serials
• List of film serials by studio