All for Money
1923 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father’s eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp’s intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp’s unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp’s great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
Direction Reinhold Schünzel
Cast Emil Jannings · Hermann Thimig · Dagny Servaes · Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein · Walter Rilla · Curt Goetz · Maria Kamradek · Paul Biensfeldt · Ferry Sikla · Ulrich Bettac · Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur · Heinrich Schroth · Reinhold Schünzel · Max Kronert
Screenplay Hanns Kräly · Rudolf Stratz
Cinematography Alfred Hansen · Ludwig Lippert
Original title Alles für Geld
Also known as Fortune's Fool
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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