The Pauper Millionaire is a 1922 British silent comedy film directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring C. M. Hallard, Katherine Blair, and John H.
As described in a film magazine,[2] American millionaire John Pye Smith (Hallard) secretly sails for England with the intention of investigating the young woman his son Harry (Roberts) insists on marrying, concerned she may be a gold digger.
After undergoing several hardships, he tries to get work and accepts charity from drunken old Sally (Emery) and gets a job washing windows.
There matters mend when his nurse turns out to be Hilda Martin (Blair), the young woman his son intends to wed. She has a cable from his Harry to the effect that he and his mother (Whalley) are sailing to England.
His troubles at an end, John Pye Smith accepts Hilda as his future daughter-in-law.