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Mister McCall

Originaltitel: Cash McCall
  • 1960
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 42 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,3/10
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Mister McCall (1960)
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, for Cash is also making a bid for Austen's beautiful daughter, Lory. This is Cash's toughest deal ever.
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Workplace DramaDramaRomanceFinancial Drama

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuJames Garner put in a winning performance as a similarly unreconstructed capitalist in the grip of merger mania.James Garner put in a winning performance as a similarly unreconstructed capitalist in the grip of merger mania.James Garner put in a winning performance as a similarly unreconstructed capitalist in the grip of merger mania.

  • Regie
    • Joseph Pevney
  • Drehbuch
    • Lenore J. Coffee
    • Marion Hargrove
    • Cameron Hawley
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • James Garner
    • Natalie Wood
    • Nina Foch
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    6,3/10
    1702
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    • Regie
      • Joseph Pevney
    • Drehbuch
      • Lenore J. Coffee
      • Marion Hargrove
      • Cameron Hawley
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • James Garner
      • Natalie Wood
      • Nina Foch
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    James Garner
    James Garner
    • Cash McCall
    Natalie Wood
    Natalie Wood
    • Lory Austen
    Nina Foch
    Nina Foch
    • Maude Kennard
    Dean Jagger
    Dean Jagger
    • Grant Austen
    E.G. Marshall
    E.G. Marshall
    • Winston Conway
    Henry Jones
    Henry Jones
    • Gil Clark
    Otto Kruger
    Otto Kruger
    • Will Atherson
    Roland Winters
    Roland Winters
    • Gen. Andrew Danvers
    Edward Platt
    Edward Platt
    • Harrison Glenn
    • (as Edward C. Platt)
    Edgar Stehli
    Edgar Stehli
    • Mr. Pierce
    Linda Watkins
    Linda Watkins
    • Miriam Austen
    Parley Baer
    Parley Baer
    • Harvey Bannon
    Russell Ash
    • Middle-Aged Man
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    Nicky Blair
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    Robert Clarke
    Robert Clarke
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    Robert Conrad
    Robert Conrad
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    • Regie
      • Joseph Pevney
    • Drehbuch
      • Lenore J. Coffee
      • Marion Hargrove
      • Cameron Hawley
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    dougdoepke

    Wheeler-Dealer Instruction Manual that Loses its Nerve

    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). All in all, these movies hold up well despite the passage of years. The trick for films of this type was to be realistic enough with the big money scheming to hold audience interest without at the same time indicting the upper tiers of capitalism. For to do the latter would, among other reasons, serve the interests of the Soviet side of the Cold War then at its peak. As a result, in such movies conscience or a force for good usually prevails at the last minute over ruthless business connivings no matter how unconvincing the abrupt triumph. And that's very much the case in the otherwise routine Cash McCall.

    At first, McCall is characterized as a corporate vulture—a wheeler-dealer who buys up struggling companies, disassembles them for profit, and then walks away from whatever communities he may have destroyed in the process. But, of course, it's hard to make a sympathetic lead out of such a ruthless character, even for such a likable personality as James Garner. So the screenplay begins to fudge. He's next characterized as a dis-assembler whose aim is to build up anew from the pieces, though the human consequences are not made clear. And finally, after a thorough conversion, he becomes a full-fledged business humanitarian putting communities first for reasons that also remain rather unclear, but does, of course, produce a happy ending. Thus, the ends of the Production Code, the Cold War, and audience expectations are duly served.

    The movie itself is pretty unmemorable. To me the pairing of the mature Garner and the rather callow Wood seems a brittle one, no matter how much the winsome Wood is glamorized. Then too, Garner suppresses his charming Maverick side in the interests of getting into McCall's character, but in the process gives up his special appeal as an actor. On the other hand, it's a fine array of supporting players, especially Henry Jones whose Bassett- hound face registers an unusual array of subtle emotions. His is a very different appearance for that glamour-obsessed time period. Anyway, the movie's a decent enough entertainment, but outside of its wheeler-dealer instruction manual, remains pretty forgettable.
    8SMK-4

    Ahead of its time

    In many respects this looks like a 1980s film that has been moved through a hole in the time/space continuum into 1959. From a cynical 1990s perspective, much of it is probably a touch too sweet, especially the romance, but the way high-flying business is portrayed was way ahead of its time. It is very much as we would find it in mid-1980s films such as Wall Street or Other People's Money. In case some of the dialogue/monologue sounds familiar: Pretty Woman seems to have "borrowed" significant chunks.
    Doctor_Bombay

    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.
    8bkoganbing

    Business And Romance

    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.

    Usually it's not a real good idea to mix business with pleasure, but in Cash McCall, Garner succeeds quite well. I now know where some of the plot of Grease came from. If you'll remember John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John have a summer fling which ends, but then find themselves in the same school in different social circles.

    Cash McCall begins with Garner already having had that fling with Natalie Wood on vacation in Maine and he discovers she's the daughter of Dean Jagger, president of a plastics firm he's looking to acquire. When he discovers who she is it does complicate matters, but Garner is a most resourceful man. In the end it all works out to everyone's satisfaction, but there are a few bumps in the road. Those bumps are what the film is all about.

    James Garner has played so many con men on the big and small screen it would have been an easy matter for him to slip into that familiar characterization for him. But he plays this one absolutely straight and does quite well with the part. Of course if he had been anything less than up front he wouldn't have gotten Wood. Natalie was just radiant in her role as the Philadelphia Main Line princess, a bit more human than Tracy Samantha Lord of The Philadelphia Story.

    Besides Dean Jagger, the leads are backed by an established group of players portraying various business types as Edward Platt, E.G. Marshall, Otto Kruger, Parley Baer, and Roland Winters. Two performances that are really outstanding are Nina Foch as the hotel chief housekeeper at the place where Garner resides occupying an entire floor and part of another and Henry Jones as an efficiency expert who Garner recruits.

    I'm surprised that Cash McCall was not taken up as material for a prime time soap opera in the Eighties, the decade of such. It certainly has all the ingredients.

    Still it remains as one of James Garner's best early film performances and usually on the top 10 list for his fans.
    marjot

    Fast-paced

    I watched this solely because James Garner was in it and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Natalie Wood was beautiful! I thought the plot was somewhat hard to swallow - but it shows how much you would do for love! If you like this movie, rent "Wheeler-Dealers" with Mr. Garner and Lee Remick. It is hilarious!

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      James Garner's last film under his Warner Brothers contract. After a writer's strike halted all Warner Brothers productions, even though Garner had a "play or pay" contract, Warner Brothers refused to pay him. Garner sued the studio for breach of contract and won.
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      The log that Lory and Cash sit on is elevated from the ground and held in place by a bolt.
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      Winston Conway: I'm not a moralist, I'm a lawyer.

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      • 22. Juli 1960 (Westdeutschland)
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      • Englisch
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      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
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