
To keep his social-climbing wife and daughters in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed, wealthy George Hunter makes some large investments in the stock market, but the stocks crash and he loses a great deal of money. His wealthy aunt offers to bail the family out, but complications ensue.

Clyde Fitch, Lucien Hubbard
United States

To witness The Climbers (1919) is to observe the slow-motion collapse of a gilded cage. Directed with a keen eye for architectural claustrophobia by Tom Terriss, this adaptation of Clyde Fitch’s stage play remains a startlingly relevant indictment of the speculative fever that periodically grips the Ameri...

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Tom Terriss

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" To witness The Climbers (1919) is to observe the slow-motion collapse of a gilded cage. Directed with a keen eye for architectural claustrophobia by Tom Terriss, this adaptation of Clyde Fitch’s stage play remains a startlingly relevant indictment of the speculative fever that periodically grips the American psyche. While many films of the late 1910s were content with simplistic moral binaries, this narrative operates in the murky grey zones of financial desperation and domestic ex..."

