"Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers" (1976) TV mini-series

Director:

Boris Sagal

Writers:

Arthur Hailey (novel)
Dean Riesner (writer)

Release Date:

4 December 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

This is the story of the happenings at a major bank. The first of which is that the bank's president...

Plot Keywords:

TV Mini-Series | Beautiful Woman | Banking | Based On Novel

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 4 nominations

Cast

Kirk Douglas	...	Alex Vandervoort
Christopher Plummer	...	Roscoe Heyward
Anne Baxter	...	Edwina Dorsey
Ralph Bellamy	...	Jerome Patterson
Timothy Bottoms	...	Miles Eastin
Joan Collins	...	Avril Devereaux
Susan Flannery	...	Margot Bracken
Robert Loggia	...	Tony Bear
Marisa Pavan	...	Celia Vandervoort
Jean Peters	...	Beatrice Heyward
Percy Rodrigues	...	Nolan Wainwright
Hayden Rorke	...	Lewis Dorsey
James Shigeta	...	Wizard Wong
Ann Tivell	...	Juanita Nunez
Patrick O'Neal	...	Harold Austin

Also Known As:

The Moneychangers

Runtime:

390 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Paramount Television

Quotes:

Avril Devereaux: [to Roscoe Hayward about her employer, George Quartermain] Darling, you may be my beau, but he's still my boss.

Huge cast, lots of action and great acting

I give it three and a half stars. The Moneychangers is a great adaptation of the Hailey novel, but the greatest claim to fame in this action packed story, is its cast, the fact that Christopher Plummer won an Emmy Award as best actor for it, and the return of actrress Jean Peters to the screen. You'll see pros Like Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer in a quite credible battle over the presidency of a bank. The rest of the cast is incredibly good, with a lot of big names in supporting roles. Joan Collins plays the vamp who steals Plummer from Jean Peters (looking radiant in her comeback after years of absence from the screen). Marisa Pavan is Douglas's wife. She plays a mental case and her psychiatrist is none other than Helen Hayes. Anne Baxter is head of personnel at the bank and becomes concerned when one of her tellers (Timothy Bottoms) is suspected of credit card fraud. Others in the cast include James Shighetta, Mikko Takka, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Flannery, Hayden Rourque, Virginia Field, Lorne Greene, Patrick O'Neal, and another dozen very recognizable faces. All these fine actors deal with a number of serious topics - infidelity, ambition, battle for success, madness, police investigations, jail, homosexuality, riches and poverty. Good show!