
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances..


If you came here looking for the movie with the guy from Titanic and the Quaaludes, you are in the wrong place. This is the 1929 version, and it is much more of a downer. Is it worth watching? Only if you really like old-fashioned melodramas where people stare intensely at ticker tape machines. If you hate slow movies...

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Rowland V. Lee

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"If you came here looking for the movie with the guy from Titanic and the Quaaludes, you are in the wrong place. This is the 1929 version, and it is much more of a downer. Is it worth watching? Only if you really like old-fashioned melodramas where people stare intensely at ticker tape machines. If you hate slow movies with scratchy audio, you should probably skip it entirely. George Bancroft plays the main guy, and he has this very heavy, imposing presence. He is a stockbroker who decides to s..."

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