Dollar Down (1925)
Just before he propelled the crime melodrama to new, macabre heights in The Unholy Three, Browning directed this partially lost morality tale pertaining to a different kind of horror: that of a middle-class family living beyond their means and falling prey to moneylenders. Produced by and starring Ruth Roland for FBO Studios, a small operation that later became RKO Pictures, Dollar Down follows Roland as the spendthrift daughter of a manufacturing firm’s general manager (Henry Walthall), who pawns a ring purchased on credit to throw an extravagant party and sends the family’s livelihood into a tailspin. Because its last reel completely disintegrated before it could be copied, the film remains an ultra-rare curio that nonetheless captures an important chapter in Browning’s career before his successful string of films made for MGM.
- Date of release
- 1925-09-20
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Tod Browning
Casting
- Ruth Roland — Ruth Craig
- Henry B. Walthall — Alec Craig
- Mayme Kelso — Mrs. Craig
- Earl Schenck — Grant Elliot
- Claire McDowell — Mrs. Meadows
- Roscoe Karns — Gene Meadows
- Jane Mercer — Betty Meadows
- Lloyd Whitlock — Howard Steele
- Otis Harlan — Norris
- Edward W. Borman — Tilton
- Newton Hall — Little Boy
- Pat Wing — Little Girl
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