The log that Lory and Cash sit on is elevated from the ground and held in place by a bolt.
Starts well with some very trendy opening credits for 1959, then it quickly establishes itself in cardboard Hollywoodland with lots of dialogue to tell the story. (It seems like Warner Brothers were trying to make a movie star out of James Garner, who was the lead in their TV western series 'Maverick', but they've confined him to a low budget and lashings of TV-type dialogue.
James Garner makes a dashing young entrepreneur of the business world in Cash McCall, the second of two films made from Cameron Hawley's business world novels, the other being the acclaimed Executive Suite. Hawley certainly knew how to capture the business world well and put a proper face on it.
When you first hear of this flick, you think it is like most of Garner's "Light Comedy" from the 60's - Not so. This film shows the a steamy underside of the Big Business "Scene" and the kind of trickery that goes on...
Cash McCall is a business tycoon who has been taking over various corporations through buy-outs without regards for the people he works for him goes after a plastics company owned by Dean Jagger so he can resume a relationship with Jagger's daughter, Natalie Wood. It appears that the year before, they had a brief romance which somehow soured, and now he wants to marry her.
James Garner has always had a knack for making every character he's played his own. From his early T.
Stock market tycoon James Garner (as Cash McCall) pursues pretty children's book illustrator Natalie Wood (as Lory). Previously, they had something of a summer romance, when Ms.
The best part of this Technicolor exercise is the light it shines on high-power business dealings and how these were treated in the Production Code 1950's-- and is worth a quick few words.In that Cold War decade, Hollywood discovered the drama of corporation boardrooms and big business in such films as the ruthless Patterns (1956), the intrigues of Executive Suite (1954), and the comedic Solid Gold Cadillac (1956).
A hot shot business man buys failing businesses and manages to sell them for profit. It seems the filmmakers were going for riveting drama about big business and acquisitions.
Natalie Wood drives a beautiful white, 1959 Mercury convertible with the top down and at the end of the movie, she and James Garner drive off in a more beautiful, white 1959 Lincoln Continental also with the top down. As a vintage car collector, I love spotting those beauties in those old films.
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