Cash McCall (1960)

Director:

Joseph Pevney

Writers:

Lenore J. Coffee (writer)
Marion Hargrove (writer)

Release Date:

27 January 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Love story of a man whose first love was the pursuit of profit!

Plot:

Cash McCall is a young and slick business man who buys failing businesses and resells them. Grant Austen's Plastics is even more of a prize to Cash...

Plot Keywords:

Business | Lawyer | Entrepreneur | Male Female Relationship | Hotel Manager

Cast

James Garner	...	Cash McCall
Natalie Wood	...	Lory Austen
Nina Foch	...	Maude Kennard
Dean Jagger	...	Grant Austen
E.G. Marshall	...	Winston Conway
Henry Jones	...	Gilmore 'Gil' Clark
Otto Kruger	...	Will Atherson
Roland Winters	...	General Andrew 'Andy' Danvers
Edward Platt	...	Harrison Glenn (as Edward C. Platt)
Edgar Stehli	...	Mr. Pierce
Linda Watkins	...	Marie Austen
Parley Baer	...	Harvey Bannon

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

UK:U (cut) | West Germany:12 (nf) | Australia:PG | Finland:S

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

McCall's plane is a demilitarized Douglas A-26 Invader, a type used in WWII.

Quotes:

Winston Conway: I'm not a moralist, I'm a lawyer.

They don't make 'em like this anymore.

When Natalie Wood was in her prime, she was at the top of the biz, stunningly beautiful, sharp, but accessible. And no one played the all-american stud better than Jim Garner.

Call it a bedroom farce if you like but Cash McCall combines a lot of wheeling and dealing with a good old fashioned boy-meets-girl to make a very pleasing movie.

At first glance, McCall (Garner) is part playboy, part ruthless businessman, but we know better; that his heart of gold belongs only to Lory Austen (Wood), a woman he met last Summer, and he's thought of nothing but her since.

Standard fare, well done with attractive stars, that alone puts it in the upper 20% as far as I'm concerned. Enjoy it.