Lucy Hegan, the proprietor of a settlement house for the poor, is engaged to Hugh Gordon, the head of a large pharmaceutical and chemical firm who, unknown to Lucy, is also the ringleader of a powerful drug and white slave operation in the Chinese quarter. While conducting an investigation into illicit drug traffic for his paper, newspaper reporter Allan Martin meets Lucy and falls in love with her.


A celluloid fever dream dredged from the cellar of 1920, The Money Changers arrives like a potassium flash in a darkroom, exposing the grinning skull beneath the banker’s derby. Director Benjamin B. Hampton, armed with Upton Sinclair’s scalpel-sharp scenario, does not merely chronicle the narcotics trade—he inhales i...

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" A celluloid fever dream dredged from the cellar of 1920, The Money Changers arrives like a potassium flash in a darkroom, exposing the grinning skull beneath the banker’s derby. Director Benjamin B. Hampton, armed with Upton Sinclair’s scalpel-sharp scenario, does not merely chronicle the narcotics trade—he inhales it, letting the acrid smoke stain every frame until even the intertitles reek of laudanum. A tale of two cities, two currencies, two veils On the surface we inherit the grammar of..."

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Upton Sinclair, Benjamin B. Hampton, William H. Clifford
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