All for Money

All for Money (1923)

Alles für Geld

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.

Date of release
1923-11-04
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Drama
Director
Reinhold Schünzel

Casting

Interesting facts

All for Money is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Emil Jannings, Hermann Thimig, and Dagny Servaes. In 1928, a sound version was prepared for American audiences by Gotham Productions. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film was shot at the Halensee Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter.

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