Dollar Down

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1925 · 60 min · Drama · TMDB 7.0/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Tod Browning

Cast

• Ruth Roland — Ruth Craig
• Henry B. Walthall — Alec Craig
• Mayme Kelso — Mrs. Craig
• Earl Schenck — Grant Elliot
• Claire McDowell — Mrs. Meadows