The 1907 crash that almost broke America, told through a banking titan and his secret weapon mistress.
Based on a true story and takes place in 1907 in New York as real-life bankers J. P. Morgan and Charles Barney grapple with a financial crisis sparked by Barney’s failed attempt to manipulate the copper market. As Morgan strives to safeguard his empire he becomes entangled in a clandestine struggle involving his brilliant mistress, Belle de Costa Greene, who ran his world-famous library.
Acting
Colm Meaney's Morgan—terrifying charm in a three-piece suit.
Production
Library porn. Morgan's actual collection, recreated with obsessive detail.
Writing
Belle de Costa Greene finally gets her due as the real power behind the throne.
Director
Daniel Adams
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belle de Costa Greene was a Black woman passing as Portuguese—her racial identity was erased from public history until recent scholarship. The film's handling of this remains its most fascinating tension.
The real Morgan Library still stands at 36th and Madison, and Greene ran it until 1948—outliving her famous lover by decades.
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