Ready Money (1914)
Comedy-drama | 5 November 1914
Director:
Oscar C. ApfelProducer:
Jesse L. LaskyProduction Company:
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.According to the 19 Sep 1914 Motion Picture News, Ready Money, with Edward Abeles in the role of "Steve Baird," "was produced at the Lasky studio [in Hollywood, CA] under the direction of Oscar Apfel. Theodore Roberts was cast for Mike Reardon, mine foreman; James Neil for Jackson Ives, the counterfeiter; Fred Montaigue for Morgan, the mine operator; Howard Hickman for Mr. Tyler; Dick LaReno for Capt. West, the secret service employee; Jane Darwell for Mrs. Tyler, and Bessie Barriscale for Grace Tyler. Among the big scenes for this photoplay will be one of a New York cafe on New Year's Eve, and that of the explosion of a mine." In the final film, the part of "Mr. Tyler" was performed by Jode Mullally, not Howard Hickman.
The 26 Sep 1914 Moving Picture World noted that Edward Abeles, having recently completed Lasky's The Making of Bobby Burnit, was currently filming Ready Money. The 31 Oct 1914 Moving Picture World reported that location shooting took place at the "new Lasky reservation at the mouth of Wilson's Canyon, four miles beyond San Fernando, California." The area, near present-day Sylmar, CA, offered "mountain peaks, valleys, streams, canyons, welded hills, abandoned mines, ore dumps, coal tipples, crude miners' huts, an Indian camp of thirty-five tepees, a shallow lake, a small rivulet which runs for fifty feet and comes from a rocky nook and then...disappears into a cavernous opening in the hillside, a mansion of old Colonial times and a sandy stretch of plain." This new "Lasky ranch," formerly known as the Providencia Ranch, comprised over four hundred acres. "The mining scenes ...
According to the 19 Sep 1914 Motion Picture News, Ready Money, with Edward Abeles in the role of "Steve Baird," "was produced at the Lasky studio [in Hollywood, CA] under the direction of Oscar Apfel. Theodore Roberts was cast for Mike Reardon, mine foreman; James Neil for Jackson Ives, the counterfeiter; Fred Montaigue for Morgan, the mine operator; Howard Hickman for Mr. Tyler; Dick LaReno for Capt. West, the secret service employee; Jane Darwell for Mrs. Tyler, and Bessie Barriscale for Grace Tyler. Among the big scenes for this photoplay will be one of a New York cafe on New Year's Eve, and that of the explosion of a mine." In the final film, the part of "Mr. Tyler" was performed by Jode Mullally, not Howard Hickman.
The 26 Sep 1914 Moving Picture World noted that Edward Abeles, having recently completed Lasky's The Making of Bobby Burnit, was currently filming Ready Money. The 31 Oct 1914 Moving Picture World reported that location shooting took place at the "new Lasky reservation at the mouth of Wilson's Canyon, four miles beyond San Fernando, California." The area, near present-day Sylmar, CA, offered "mountain peaks, valleys, streams, canyons, welded hills, abandoned mines, ore dumps, coal tipples, crude miners' huts, an Indian camp of thirty-five tepees, a shallow lake, a small rivulet which runs for fifty feet and comes from a rocky nook and then...disappears into a cavernous opening in the hillside, a mansion of old Colonial times and a sandy stretch of plain." This new "Lasky ranch," formerly known as the Providencia Ranch, comprised over four hundred acres. "The mining scenes in 'Ready Money' were made by Oscar Apfel on this latter stretch of ground, and the Lasky players were housed in one of the huge residential buildings containing twenty-four rooms and ample commissary connections." A review in the 21 Nov 1914 Motography praised a New York City interior scene as "a masterpiece in its particular class. It is the cafe scene on New Year's eve, with an electric sign in the background flashing 1915. The scene is both broad and deep, and fairly alive with gay parties welcoming the new year."
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. was founded in Hollywood, CA, in late 1913 by Lasky, Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn), and Cecil B. DeMille.
Mining engineer Steve Baird goes West to Gallup, a mining town, and, with a new acquaintance, mine foreman Mike Reardon, buys an abandoned mine called "The Skyrocket" for $30,000. Paying one-third of the price up front, Steve returns to New York to raise the remaining $20,000, and meets Jackson Ives, who, at first unbeknownst to Steve, is being pursued by government agents who suspect him of counterfeiting. Ives gives Steve $50,000 in counterfeit money for stock in the mine, just before the notes are due. When Grace Tyler and other wealthy friends see the money during a New Year's Eve party, they also buy stock, believing that Steve is a success. As Secret Service men show up at Steve's apartment and try to get samples of the money, Steve sneaks the $50,000 into an envelope, addresses it to Grace, and safely drops it down a mail chute. Meanwhile, in Gallup, mine operator James Morgan, who owns the adjoining property to The Skyrocket, has discovered that a vein of ore in his mine extends into Baird's property. Knowing that Mike Reardon is working The Skyrocket day and night and will soon stumble onto the vein of gold, Morgan sets off an explosion, hoping to kill or injure Mike. However, Mike is unharmed, and the explosion reveals the gold's presence. All the investors become wealthy, including Ives, who now has the money to make his forgeries good. He also stands as best man at Steve and Grace's ...
Mining engineer Steve Baird goes West to Gallup, a mining town, and, with a new acquaintance, mine foreman Mike Reardon, buys an abandoned mine called "The Skyrocket" for $30,000. Paying one-third of the price up front, Steve returns to New York to raise the remaining $20,000, and meets Jackson Ives, who, at first unbeknownst to Steve, is being pursued by government agents who suspect him of counterfeiting. Ives gives Steve $50,000 in counterfeit money for stock in the mine, just before the notes are due. When Grace Tyler and other wealthy friends see the money during a New Year's Eve party, they also buy stock, believing that Steve is a success. As Secret Service men show up at Steve's apartment and try to get samples of the money, Steve sneaks the $50,000 into an envelope, addresses it to Grace, and safely drops it down a mail chute. Meanwhile, in Gallup, mine operator James Morgan, who owns the adjoining property to The Skyrocket, has discovered that a vein of ore in his mine extends into Baird's property. Knowing that Mike Reardon is working The Skyrocket day and night and will soon stumble onto the vein of gold, Morgan sets off an explosion, hoping to kill or injure Mike. However, Mike is unharmed, and the explosion reveals the gold's presence. All the investors become wealthy, including Ives, who now has the money to make his forgeries good. He also stands as best man at Steve and Grace's wedding.
Mining engineer Steve Baird goes West to Gallup, a mining town, and, with a new acquaintance, mine foreman Mike Reardon, buys an abandoned mine called "The Skyrocket" for $30,000. Paying one-third of the price up front, Steve returns to New York to raise the remaining $20,000, and meets Jackson Ives, who, at first unbeknownst to Steve, is being pursued by government agents who suspect him of counterfeiting. Ives gives Steve $50,000 in counterfeit money for stock in the mine, just before the notes are due. When Grace Tyler and other wealthy friends see the money during a New Year's Eve party, they also buy stock, believing that Steve is a success. As Secret Service men show up
Mining engineer Steve Baird goes West to Gallup, a mining town, and, with a new acquaintance, mine foreman Mike Reardon, buys an abandoned mine called "The Skyrocket" for $30,000. Paying one-third of the price up front, Steve returns to New York to raise the remaining $20,000, and meets Jackson Ives, who, at first unbeknownst to Steve, is being pursued by government agents who suspect him of counterfeiting. Ives gives Steve $50,000 in counterfeit money for stock in the mine, just before the notes are due. When Grace Tyler and other wealthy friends see the money during a New Year's Eve party, they also buy stock, believing that Steve is a success. As Secret Service men show up
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