Is Money Everything?
About Is Money Everything?
Farmer John Brand loves his wife Marion, then success makes him hungry for money and he drifts from her. At the top of his career he takes up with a married woman, Justine Pelham. Marion deliberately ruins him to pull him back. They return to the farm and, the booking guide says, find their happiness in being poor again.
Cast & crew
More about Is Money Everything?
Glen Lyons wrote and directed the six-reel melodrama for D.M. Film Corporation. Alvin Knechtel was director of photography. Lee-Bradford Corporation distributed it. AFI and Silent Era date the release 1 September 1923. The negative is listed at 5,800 feet. Variety had already carried a notice on 26 April 1923.
Themes
Making
Lyons both wrote the scenario and directed. The picture is black and white, silent, six reels, standard 1.33:1.
Look
Alvin Knechtel photographed the six-reel film in black and white.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
Silent Era lists a surviving 35mm nitrate positive. The film is treated as public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Norman Kerry plays John Brand. Miriam Cooper is Marion Brand. John Sylvester is the Reverend John Brooks, her father.
- Martha Mansfield is Mrs. Justine Pelham and William Bailey is Roy Pelham. Andrew Hicks plays Sam Slack. Lawrence Brooke is Phil Graham.
- Motion Picture News Booking Guide for April 1924, page 38, prints the short synopsis still used in the AFI catalog.
- Silent Era records a surviving 35mm nitrate positive and lists the film as public domain in the United States.
- Martha Mansfield died on 30 November 1923 after her costume caught fire on the set of The Warrens of Virginia.
Scenes
- At the height of his success John Brand gets involved with the married Justine Pelham.
- Marion brings on his financial ruin, and the couple goes back to the farm.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Is Money Eveything? (1923).webm)