Cash McCall (Warner Bros.) (1960)

Gai Ge i Pa Fi Re FAA Ss 2 Ae DH HH HA AH GH HH A SS KH KH GS FROM THE BIG BEST-SELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘EXECUTIVE SUITE’ A WARNER BROS. picture TECHNICOLOR® ALSO-STARRING N J ames Garner Natalié Wood NATOK: DEAN JAGGER EG MARSMALL: TENRY JONES: = This fellow he's a Zillionaire... But this girlshe keeps giving him the air...! Why should be ? People, you gotta see! Itis the new year's big bright romantic delight! me ! a Prod Screenplay by fog Directed by Music by [NORE COFFE au MARION HARGROVE ~ HENRY BLANKE = Josip Pv. tee2 MAT 402 —4 col. x 10 inches (552 lines) Ohe S tory (Not for Publication) Cash McCall (JAMES GARNER) is a boy wonder of mod ern finance. He has variously made and lost several fortunes in the buying and selling of shaky business empires. His sphere of influence soon embraces that of Grant Austen (DEAN JAGGER), head of Austen Plastics, a concern being forced to the wall by Schofield Instrument Corp., headed by Gen. Danvers (ROLAND WINTEBS). Austen confers with Gil Clark (HENRY JONES) of Corporation Associates, management-consultant firm regarding possible sale of his company. He is told it might bring as much as $1,500,000. Meanwhile, Austen confides to his wife, Miriam (LINDA WATKINS), and lovely young daughter, Lory (NATALIE WOOD), what he had not divulged to Clark— that actually he stands to lose more than half his business because of embarrassing contractual ties. Austen also consults his banker, Will Atherson (OTTO KRUGER), who advises him an outright sale to McCall would be his wisest move. Atherson and Austen arrange an appointment with the financial wizard. Lory, who has a percentage interest in her father’s firm, goes along. When Atherson starts to introduce McCall to Lory, McCall says they had previously met. Lory seem strangely distant, strangely perturbed. McCall explains to Austen that he has the controlling interest in Corporation Associates, of which Austen is a client. Austen pins a price of $2,000,000 on his firm. McCall accepts. Later, Lory drives McCall to the airfield. He gets her aboard his plane and takes off, landing at a secluded valley retreat where he compels her to listen to his side of the incident which led to their estrangement. They had met by chance a year before at a vacation resort and Lory, in a moment of mid-summer recklessness, had offered herself to McCall. He had told her she was still but a child, and had sent her on her way. Now he is desperately in love with her—an affection that Lory more than returns. Meanwhile, Danvers has learned of the pending plastics company sale. He needs the firm to preserve his own business empire. He is ready to offer 300,000 shares of Schofield— worth $3,000,000. McCall by now has asked Lory to marry him and she has given her consent. One afternoon while she has been waiting for McCall in his penthouse suite the door opens to the turn of a key and Maude Kennard (NINA FOCH) enters. Maude is in love with McCall—a one-sided attachment—and in bitter jealousy she pretends to Lory that she and McCall are quite intimate. Lory angrily stalks off. Austen now learns of Danvers’ offer. Has McCall tricked him out of an extra $1,000,000 he might have had for himself? McCall races to the Austen home. He tells Lory the truth about Maude—that as the hotel’s assistant manager she had a key to every room. He informs Austen he bought the plastics company only to open a line of communication to Lory. He resolutely refuses to back out of the deal. He also explains the real motivation for Danvers’ offer. Lory is quick to see the validity of his position and, siding with McCall, mentions her father’s withholding of the vital contractual data in consummating the sale. Austen concedes he has: been unwisely rash. And now nothing more stands between Lory and McCall. (Running Time: 102 minutes)