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The Almighty Dollar (1923 film)

1923 German film directed by Jaap Speyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ22967576 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Almighty Dollar (German: Der allmächtige Dollar) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Jaap Speyer. The film's sets were designed by the art director Siegfried Wroblewsky.

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Bibliography

Parish, James Robert; Canham, Kingsley (1976). Film Directors Guide: Western Europe. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-0908-6.

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“The Almighty Dollar (1923 film)” enters the record as 1923 German film directed by Jaap Speyer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Almighty, Dollar and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Almighty, Dollar and film.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22967576. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Almighty Dollar (1923 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.