Dan Totheroh - When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

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Totheroh, Dan, and Stephen Vincent Benét, screenwriters. All That Money Can Buy. Directed by William Dieterle, RKO Radio Pictures, 1941.

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