Dollar Down

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title: "Dollar Down" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1925-films", "1925-drama-films", "american-silent-drama-films", "american-silent-feature-films", "american-black-and-white-films", "films-directed-by-tod-browning", "1925-american-films", "1920s-english-language-films"] description: "1925 film" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_Down" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 1925 film ::

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Field	Value
name	Dollar Down
image	Dollar Down lobby card.jpg
caption	Lobby card
director	Tod Browning
producer	Ruth Roland
story	Jane Courthope
Ethel Hill
screenplay	Frederick Stowers
starring	Ruth Roland
Henry B. Walthall
cinematography	Allen Q. Thompson
production_companies	Co-Artists Productions
distributor	Truart Film Corporation
State's Rights
released
runtime	6 reels (6318 feet)
country	United States
language	Silent (English intertitles)
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| name = Dollar Down | image = Dollar Down lobby card.jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = Tod Browning | producer = Ruth Roland | story = Jane Courthope Ethel Hill | screenplay = Frederick Stowers | starring = Ruth Roland Henry B. Walthall | cinematography = Allen Q. Thompson | editing = | production_companies = Co-Artists Productions | distributor = Truart Film Corporation State's Rights | released = | runtime = 6 reels (6318 feet) | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles)

Dollar Down is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. A print in the UCLA Film and Television Archive has one of its six reels missing. Filmed in April 1924 at the F.B.O Studios in Santa Monica, California, Dollar Down was the first of two features produced by star Ruth Roland and Browning's production company, Co-Artists Productions.

Plot

As described in a film magazine reviews, 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

• 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)

References

References

1. (September 19, 1925). "Production Charts With Release Dates of Coming Productions (continued)". Exhibitor's Review Publishing Corporation.
2. (May 8, 1926). "Dollar Down".
3. "Progressive Silent Film List: ''Dollar Down''". Silent Era.
4. "Dollar Down". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database.
5. (April 5, 1924). "F.B.O.".
6. (April 19, 1924). "Herald's Studio Directory".
7. (March 15, 1924). "Cast Selected For Ruth Roland Feature". [[Motion Picture News]].
8. (12 September 1925). "New Pictures: ''Dollar Down''". Exhibitors Herald Company.

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