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Is Money Everything?
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5800 feet
Directed by Glen Lyons
Cast: Norman Kerry [John Brand], Miriam Cooper [Marion Brand, his wife], Andrew Hicks [Samuel Slack], John Sylvester [Reverend John Brooks, Marion’s father], Martha Mansfield [Mrs. Justine Pelham], William Bailey [Roy Pelham], Lawrence Brooke [Phil Graham]
D.M. Film Corporation production; distributed by [?] Lee-Bradford Corporation or Davis Distributing Division, Incorporated, through Vital Exchanges, Incorporated? / Scenario by Glen Lyons. Cinematography by Alvin Knechtel. Presented by Lee-Bradford Corporation. / No copyright registration. Released 1 September 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The production may have been shot in 1922.
Drama: Romance.
Synopsis: [Motion Picture News Booking Guide, April 1924, page ?] John Brand, deeply in love with his wife, becomes money mad with success and grows apart from her. He becomes involved with a married woman at the height of his career. His wife deliberately brings about his financial ruin to save him and they go back to the farm to find real happiness in their poverty.
Survival status: Print exists [35mm nitrate positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Affairs - Domestics: Chauffeurs - Farmers - Greed - Signage - Small towns - Street scenes - Transportation: Automobiles
Listing updated: 21 March 2012.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Cooper-Dark pp. 190, 193 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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