Silver Dollar (1932)
7/10
"Yates Martin" is the man that William Jennings Bryan says was "Crucified on a Cross of Gold" . . .
13 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
. . . during INHERIT THE WIND, as well as in countless Real Life campaign speeches. During the actual Real Life Era of SILVER DOLLAR, ounce-for-ounce Silver was worth as much or more than gold on American markets, because it's A)Prettier, B)Stronger, and C)More Useful than "Fool's gold" (whose intrinsic worth is barely more than pyrite's). Then, about the time that the Racist South African DeBeers Corp. hired some Madison Avenue flaks to spew and spread propaganda that raised the price of diamonds from a dime a karat up toward Today's sky-high ransoms (as oceans of diamonds are being held hostage, bursting the DeBeers Crime Cartel's cavernous bunkers), these same East Coast Liars bribed the U.S. Congress to turn against the metal of choice for We True Blue Loyal Patriotic Normal Average 99 Per Center Silent Majority Progressive Union Label Working Stiffs--SILVER!!--in favor of that wimpy, weak-kneed Foreign Idol, gold. In the process, these Corrupt Fat Cat Job-Killing "Conservative" Corporate Frauds destroy "Mr. Martin's" Life, as depicted in SILVER DOLLAR (leaving him so cursed that even our courageous People's Movie Studio--Warner Bros.--had to use the "Martin" alias in lieu of this Silver Champ's actual handle: Horace Tabor). Since Eddie Robinson's character refuses to "play the game" and ride the Golden Calf under ANY name, the Pedophiliac Repug Party wipes out any evidence that he ever lived.
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