The Grip of Circumstance (1914) User Reviews

It contains no powerful scenes

[deickemeyer · 9 May 2018]

This follows the career of a young society man who goes broke gambling and becomes a thief. He steals plate from his sweetheart's home and gets the butler discharged for the theft, but later in the story is rounded up. The story opens rather slowly, but becomes absorbing later along. It is a successful offering of the crook type, though it contains no powerful scenes, Thos. Commerford, E.H. Calvert and Angela Dolores are among those in the cast The photography is dark in places. - The Moving Picture World, February 21, 1914