All for Money

All for Money (1923)

Drama

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.

Director: Reinhold Schünzel

Casts

	Emil Jannings as S. I. Rupp
	Hermann Thimig as Fred Rupp
	Dagny Servaes as Asta
	Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein as Frau von Laar
	Walter Rilla as Henry von Lauffen
	Curt Goetz as Graf Ehrhardt
	Maria Kamradek as Sissy
	Paul Biensfeldt as Kammerdiener Pitt
	Ferry Sikla as Juwelier
	Ulrich Bettac as Fred Rupp
	Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as Direktor der Goliath-Werke
	Heinrich Schroth as Direktor der Phönix-Werke
	Reinhold Schünzel as Schieber
	Max Kronert as Nachtwächter
	Ursula Nest as Egede

Crew