God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926)

Directed by

Herbert Brenon

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman struggles with poverty and difficult choices in 1920s New York. The film follows her as she tries to survive and find a better life.

melancholicslow-pacedsentimentalquietearnestrestrainedsomberold-fashioned

What happens

God Gave Me Twenty Cents is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and written by Elizabeth Meehan and John Russell. The film stars Lois Moran, Lya De Putti, Jack Mulhall, William Collier, Jr., Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Leo Feodoroff, and Rosa Rosanova. The film was released on November 20, 1926, by Paramount Pictures, following a gala premiere on November 19 that opened the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. It is based on the novel God Gave Me Twenty Cents by Dixie Willson, subsequently remade by Paramount British as a sound film Ebb Tide in 1932. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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