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Dollar Down

Dollar Down
Lobby card
Directed byTod Browning
Screenplay byFrederick Stowers
Story byJane Courthope
Ethel Hill
Produced byRuth Roland
StarringRuth Roland
Henry B. Walthall
CinematographyAllen Q. Thompson
Production
company
Co-Artists Productions
Distributed byTruart Film Corporation
State's Rights
Release date
  • October 11, 1925 (1925-10-11)
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Running time
6 reels (6318 feet)[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (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]

Plot

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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.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Howe, Willard C., ed. (September 19, 1925). "Production Charts With Release Dates of Coming Productions (continued)". Exhibitor's Trade Review. Vol. 18, no. 18. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Exhibitor's Review Publishing Corporation. p. 50 – via Archive.org.
  2. ^ Johnston, William A., ed. (May 8, 1926). "Dollar Down". Motion Picture News. Vol. 33, no. 19 (Booking Guide ed.). New York. p. 26 – via Archive.org.
  3. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Dollar Down". Silent Era. Retrieved May 8, 2008.
  4. ^ "Dollar Down". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  5. ^ Quigley, Martin J., ed. (April 5, 1924). "F.B.O." Exhibitors Herald. Vol. 18, no. 15. Chicago, Illinois. p. 45 – via Archive.org.
  6. ^ Quigley, Martin J., ed. (April 19, 1924). "Herald's Studio Directory". Exhibitors Herald. Vol. 18, no. 17. Chicago, Illinois. p. 28 – via Archive.org.
  7. ^ Johnston, William A., ed. (March 15, 1924). "Cast Selected For Ruth Roland Feature". Motion Picture News. Vol. 24, no. 11. Albany, New York. p. 1185 – via Archive.org.
  8. ^ "New Pictures: Dollar Down", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (12), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 53, September 12, 1925, retrieved September 5, 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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