Silver Dollar (film)

Silver Dollar is a 1932 American PreCode biographical film starring Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels and Aline MacMahon. Based on David Karsners biography of the same name, it tells the story of the rise and fall of Horace Tabor renamed Yates Martin, a silver tycoon in 19th century Colorado.

Kansas farmer Yates Martin Edward G. Robinson uproots his uncomplaining wife Sarah Aline MacMahon and baby son to 1876 Colorado in search of gold. He buys a claim, then immediately abandons it when two prospectors tell him of a strike in Leadville. Taking Sarahs prudent advice, he sets up a store there. To her dismay, however, he stakes miners in return for partnerships in their diggings. Just as the Martins run out of money and decide to return to Kansas, prospectors Rische and Hook show up with the news that they have struck it rich, not with gold but with silver, and Yates has a third share of it.Yates spends his newfound riches with great abandon, purchasing, among other things, a claim from a seemingly downtrodden miner for 50,000, over his suspicious wifes objections. He is asked to run for Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. When his foreman informs him that the claim he bought is worthless, Yates tells him to keep on digging, at least until the election is over, so that he will not look like a fool. As it turns out, not only does he win the election, the claim yields a lode even richer than his first. ........

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