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  • Banking in the Old Daze

    1932 movie, Prosperity, starring Marie Dressler.

    Synopsis:

    In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are still bickering.

    When Lizzy inadvertently starts a run on the bank, it closes when Maggie learns that John has done what she had told him never to do - used the bank bonds for a get rich quick scheme. To gain some money for the depositors, Maggie and John sell everything that they have and move in with Lizzy, who hounds them every day.

    Their only hope for a normal life is to get the bonds back from the crooks that have them.


    (It's on Turner Classic Movies this afternoon.)




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    Re: Banking in the Old Daze

    Hell, I remember re-watching the original Wall Street a year or two ago (I hadn't seen it for a decade, maybe longer) and being bemused at how that film, considered "hard-hitting" at the time, seemed really naive today. The brokers are actually worried about the SEC. The SEC actually shows up and arrests Charlie Sheen, handcuffs him at his desk, and perp-walks him out of his firm! That ending seems as Hollywood as It's A Wonderful Life today.

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