The Grip

Overview

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.

Cast

Louis Bouwmeester

Jean-Marie Hardouin

Ko van Sprinkhuijsen

Hippolyte

Mien de la Mar

Rose

Raaf Bouwmeester

Emile

Frits Bouwmeester jr.

Etienne