Dollar Daddy (1956)
6.5(4)1h 32mMay 17, 1956
Viktor Gertler
Director
Szilárd Darvas, Béla Gádor, Andor Gábor
Writers
Rate
Diary
Overview
A heavily indebted schoolteacher raising two marriageable daughters is buoyed by rumors that his long-lost uncle in America is a millionaire, until the uncle’s unexpected arrival in poverty sparks a rush of creditors, patrons and fortune-seekers. Ambitious lawyer Jenő Szekeres orchestrates the deception so that the family, the town and himself profit from the false fortune, and even when the truth comes out, everyone, including Szekeres, now eyeing a political career, chooses to uphold the lie.
