Director: ALFRED E. GREEN. Screenplay: Carl Erickson, Harvey Thew. Based on the 1932 biography Silver Dollar: The Story of the Tabors by David Karsner. Photography: James Van Trees. Film editor: George Marks. Art director: Robert Haas. Costumes: Orry-Kelly. No producer credited.
Copyright 24 March 1933 by First National Pictures, Inc. A Warner Bros-First National Picture. New York opening at the Strand: 22 December 1932. U.K. release: 3 June 1933. 84 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Yates Martin, a Kansas farmer, gets caught up in the Colorado gold rush, and with his wife, Sarah, opens a general store in one of the boom towns. However, Yates goes broke extending credit to the miners who pay him in shares to their mines. The Martins are about to return to Kansas and farming when two miners come in with silver bags. Martin becomes the richest of them all. Soon Martin becomes a leading town figure, and enters politics, being elected in turn mayor, postmaster, sheriff and eventually lieutenant governor. He has so much money he is literally throwing it away. He buys a mansion in Denver, erects a big opera house, donates land for a post office, and is the first to give to charity on any occasion.
Martin meets Lily, a beautiful woman who delights in diamonds and pearls, and adores the limelight - a complete contrast to his wife.
NOTES: Number 22 at the Australian box-office for 1933, which is actually even better than it sounds, as this picture sold only about twenty thousand tickets less than the number 4 placed Kid from Spain.
One of Mordaunt Hall's selections for his supplementary list of "Fifty Notable Films of 1932" for The New York Times.
COMMENT: Not just another rags to riches to rags story but a superbly staged chronicle of the rise and fall of Haw Tabor, the Colorado silver mining tycoon and aspiring U.S. Senator, brilliantly and engrossingly brought to life by Ed G. The other figures of Tabor's life are well enacted too: Aline MacMahon almost too realistic as Tabor's nagging wife, Bebe Daniels (who doesn't come on till half-way through) as the gold-digger who surprisingly sticks by him.
Production values are exceptionally lavish (marvelous sets by Robert Haas). Peppy direction.
OTHER VIEWS: Robinson turns in one of his greatest performances. - Motion Picture Guide.
Copyright 24 March 1933 by First National Pictures, Inc. A Warner Bros-First National Picture. New York opening at the Strand: 22 December 1932. U.K. release: 3 June 1933. 84 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Yates Martin, a Kansas farmer, gets caught up in the Colorado gold rush, and with his wife, Sarah, opens a general store in one of the boom towns. However, Yates goes broke extending credit to the miners who pay him in shares to their mines. The Martins are about to return to Kansas and farming when two miners come in with silver bags. Martin becomes the richest of them all. Soon Martin becomes a leading town figure, and enters politics, being elected in turn mayor, postmaster, sheriff and eventually lieutenant governor. He has so much money he is literally throwing it away. He buys a mansion in Denver, erects a big opera house, donates land for a post office, and is the first to give to charity on any occasion.
Martin meets Lily, a beautiful woman who delights in diamonds and pearls, and adores the limelight - a complete contrast to his wife.
NOTES: Number 22 at the Australian box-office for 1933, which is actually even better than it sounds, as this picture sold only about twenty thousand tickets less than the number 4 placed Kid from Spain.
One of Mordaunt Hall's selections for his supplementary list of "Fifty Notable Films of 1932" for The New York Times.
COMMENT: Not just another rags to riches to rags story but a superbly staged chronicle of the rise and fall of Haw Tabor, the Colorado silver mining tycoon and aspiring U.S. Senator, brilliantly and engrossingly brought to life by Ed G. The other figures of Tabor's life are well enacted too: Aline MacMahon almost too realistic as Tabor's nagging wife, Bebe Daniels (who doesn't come on till half-way through) as the gold-digger who surprisingly sticks by him.
Production values are exceptionally lavish (marvelous sets by Robert Haas). Peppy direction.
OTHER VIEWS: Robinson turns in one of his greatest performances. - Motion Picture Guide.