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Money Means Nothing (1934)

1934 · Feature film · 63 min · dir. Christy Cabanne

  • Drama

Synopsis

At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.

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Details

Director
Christy Cabanne
Writer
Frances Hyland
Cinematography
Robert H. Planck
Studio
Monogram Pictures
Released
1934-06-14
Running time
63 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · Delightfully Sleazy · I_like_old_movies · 2012-08-16

Oddly sleazy and delightful pre-code film about a rich girl who seems to desperately want someone to throw her in the backseat of her expensive car and make her scream for more. Gloria Shea is the rich girl and Wallace Ford is the poor boy who works at a Western Auto like car accessory store. Gloria stops at a road house with drunken "Bumpy" her escort looking for some fun and ends up following a bunch of thugs out the door and then tailing them in her car. The thugs end up high-jacking a truck driven by Wallace Ford and his partner gets shot. The wounded driver and Wallace are taken by…

★ · Bad · Moongleam · 2017-08-13

It was so irritating (especially the barked dialog) that I couldn't finish it.

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