{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Dollar Down | image = Dollar Down lobby card.jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = Tod Browning | producer = Ruth Roland | story = Jane Courthope<br>Ethel Hill | screenplay = Frederick Stowers | starring = Ruth Roland<br>Henry B. Walthall | cinematography = Allen Q. Thompson | editing = | production_companies = Co-Artists Productions | distributor = Truart Film Corporation<br>State's Rights | released = {{film date|1925|10|11}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Production Charts With Release Dates of Coming Productions (continued) |editor1-last=Howe |editor1-first=Willard C. |date=September 19, 1925 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorstrader00new#page/n245/ |magazine=Exhibitor's Trade Review |location=Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Exhibitor's Review Publishing Corporation |volume=18 |issue=18 |page=50 |via=Archive.org}}</ref> | runtime = 6 reels (6318 feet)<ref>{{cite news |title=Dollar Down |editor1-last=Johnston |editor1-first=William A. |date=May 8, 1926 |url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpicture33moti#page/n351/ |magazine=Motion Picture News |edition=Booking Guide |location=New York |volume=33 |issue=19 |page=26 |via=Archive.org}}</ref> | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}
'''''Dollar Down''''' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DollarDown1925.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Dollar Down'' |accessdate=May 8, 2008|work=Silent Era}}</ref> A print in the UCLA Film & Television Archive has one of its six reels missing.<ref name="LOC">{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3135/default.html |title=Dollar Down |accessdate=January 9, 2014 |work=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database}}</ref> Filmed in April 1924 at the F.B.O Studios in Santa Monica, California,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=F.B.O. |editor1-last=Quigley |editor1-first=Martin J. |date=April 5, 1924 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald18exhi_0#page/n189/ |magazine=Exhibitors Herald |location=Chicago, Illinois |volume=18 |issue=15 |page=45 |via=Archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Herald's Studio Directory |editor1-last=Quigley |editor1-first=Martin J. |date=April 19, 1924 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald18exhi_0#page/n323/ |magazine=Exhibitors Herald |location=Chicago, Illinois |volume=18 |issue=17 |page=28 |via=Archive.org}}</ref> ''Dollar Down'' was the first of two features produced by star Ruth Roland and Browning's production company, Co-Artists Productions.<ref>{{cite news |editor1-last=Johnston |editor1-first=William A. |title=Cast Selected For Ruth Roland Feature |date=March 15, 1924 |url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew00moti_6#page/n271/ |work=Motion Picture News |location=Albany, New York |volume=24 |issue=11 |page=1185 |via=Archive.org}}</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine reviews,<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''Dollar Down'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=22 |issue=12 |pages=53 |date=12 September 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/n1352/mode/1up |access-date=5 September 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> 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== {{Cast listing| * 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 (Craig's sister) * Roscoe Karns as Gene Meadows (her son) * Jane Mercer as Betty Meadows (her daughter) * Lloyd Whitlock as Howard Steele * Otis Harlan as Norris * Edward W. Borman as Tilton (credited as Edward Borman) * Newton Hall as Little Boy * Pat Wing as Little Girl (credited as Madison Wing) * Toby Wing as Little Girl * Sonnie Walker as Little Boy * Michael Dark (uncredited) * Lou Marangella (uncredited) }}
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0015756}}
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Category:1925 films Category:1925 drama films Category:American silent drama films Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Tod Browning Category:1925 American films Category:1925 English-language films