Dollar Down (1925)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1925-09-20
Runtime: 60 minutes
Director: Tod Browning
Top Cast
- Ruth Roland as Ruth Craig
- Henry B. Walthall as Alec Craig
- Mayme Kelso as Mrs. Craig
- Earl Schenck as Grant Elliot
- Claire McDowell as Mrs. Meadows
- Roscoe Karns as Gene Meadows
- Jane Mercer as Betty Meadows
- Lloyd Whitlock as Howard Steele
- Otis Harlan as Norris
- Edward W. Borman as Tilton
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