Zeus

The Crash (1932)

• Director
  • William Dieterle
• Writers
  • Earl Baldwin(screen play)
  • Larry Barretto(screen play)
• Stars
  • Ruth Chatterton
  • George Brent
  • Lois Wilson

  In this drama, set in 1929 when the stock market crashed, a selfish, money-grubbing wife ruins her husband, an accountant after she feeds him a fake stock market tip. Prior to that, she had been having an affair with a wealthy fellow. She destroys her husband because she is bored with her lover and wants to start fresh in Bermuda. On the island, she meets a wealthy Australian who wants to get married. Her husband wants his fortune back. To get it, he blackmail's his wife's former lover. The capricious woman soon tires of the Australian and returns to her spouse. She then tears up the blackmail check.