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Cash Mccall

1960, Movie, NR, 102 mins

Cash Mccall: Review

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Ostensibly a love story between Garner and Wood (with Foch the third side of a love triangle), this movie vacillates between romance and wheeling and dealing in the world of high finance. Garner is a corporate raider who finds sick companies, merges them with well ones, and applies the ailing firms' losses as tax relief to the thriving firms' profits. The financial story line has a certain air of authority. Writer Hawley (on whose book the film was based) knows his subject, after all-- he was at one time advertising boss at Armstrong Cork. Besides, the newspaper's business section reports almost daily how this tactic is used in business. Some interesting monetary shenanigans are described, and Garner comes across as a man not only interested in making money for himself but as equally concerned about the fates of the stockholders in the companies he manipulates. Now that taxes credibility! Perhaps the film should have been a comedy. Much of it borders on the ludicrous, although it manages to stay just within the bounds of believability and to finagle its way into the viewer's good graces. leave a comment
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