Dollar Down | |
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Directed by | Tod Browning |
Screenplay by | Frederick Stowers |
Story by |
Jane Courthope Ethel Hill |
Produced by | Ruth Roland |
Starring |
Ruth Roland Henry B. Walthall |
Cinematography | Allen Q. Thompson |
Production company | Co-Artists Productions |
Distributed by |
Truart Film Corporation State's Rights |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels (6318 feet) [2] |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Dollar Down is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. [3] A print in the UCLA Film and Television Archive has one of its six reels missing. [4] Filmed in April 1924 at the F.B.O Studios in Santa Monica, California, [5] [6] Dollar Down was the first of two features produced by star Ruth Roland and Browning's production company, Co-Artists Productions. [7]
As described in a film magazine reviews, [8] Alec Craig has a fine position as general manager of a manufacturing firm, but his wife and daughter almost ruin him with their extravagance. They buy everything on the part payment plan, and their daughter Ruth pawns a ring that is not paid for to raise money with which to give an elaborate party. A man tricks her into disclosing the fact that her father’s company has an option on a valuable piece of land. Suspicion falls on Alec and he is about to lose his position. Ruth takes the blame, prevents the man from exercising the option, and a niece of Alec’s redeems the pawned ring.
Dollar Down | |
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![]() Lobby card | |
Directed by | Tod Browning |
Screenplay by | Frederick Stowers |
Story by |
Jane Courthope Ethel Hill |
Produced by | Ruth Roland |
Starring |
Ruth Roland Henry B. Walthall |
Cinematography | Allen Q. Thompson |
Production company | Co-Artists Productions |
Distributed by |
Truart Film Corporation State's Rights |
Release date |
|
Running time | 6 reels (6318 feet) [2] |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Dollar Down is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. [3] A print in the UCLA Film and Television Archive has one of its six reels missing. [4] Filmed in April 1924 at the F.B.O Studios in Santa Monica, California, [5] [6] Dollar Down was the first of two features produced by star Ruth Roland and Browning's production company, Co-Artists Productions. [7]
As described in a film magazine reviews, [8] Alec Craig has a fine position as general manager of a manufacturing firm, but his wife and daughter almost ruin him with their extravagance. They buy everything on the part payment plan, and their daughter Ruth pawns a ring that is not paid for to raise money with which to give an elaborate party. A man tricks her into disclosing the fact that her father’s company has an option on a valuable piece of land. Suspicion falls on Alec and he is about to lose his position. Ruth takes the blame, prevents the man from exercising the option, and a niece of Alec’s redeems the pawned ring.