Interesting cast


Saw this for the first time in a couple decades. Spotted some interesting names in the cast list.

Karin Dicker, jumping rope at the beginning of the film was very effective a year earlier in "Imitation of Life", playing a little black girl who wanted to be white
Don Grady who played Robbie on "My Three Sons" is a child extra when Natalie Wood runs off the road.
Otto Kruger played a slimey spy in Hitchcock's "Sabateur".
Henry Jones played Leroy in "The Bad seed".

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Henry Jones got my attention immediately, as I had actually watched "The Bad Seed" (1956) earlier on the exact same day. Interesting, though, I didn't notice the others even though I'm very familiar with those two movies and the TV show and have a definite mental image of what these actors looked like.

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Really great cast that was largely underused: Nina Foch, Ed Platt, Roland Winters, Dean Jagger, and E. G. Marshall all had established themselves in better roles. This movie could have been better with less emphasis on the romantic storyline

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I absolutely love this movie and think it's perfect just as it is. The romance adds another interesting aspect to the film and it helps tie everything else together.


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I am afraid I was underwhelmed by the casting. I read the Cameron Hawley book , whihc was very good, first. So maybe it is a little unfair to evaluate the casting aggaist the characters in the book.

Neverthless, here are a few comments. Henry Jones may have had an interesting career wiht some good supporting roles as a character actor as a minsiter, judge, or clerk. But in the book, Gil Clark, whoem Jones played was a professional business analyst, about 5 years younger than Cash Mccall, and a conscientious youg man on the move. Jones was about 48, about 16 years older than james Garner, who played Cash Mccall, and, if anyhting looked closer to 58. He looked like a clerk in a bank or a bookeeper, not a managmeent consultant who deals with executives of corporations.

James Garner did a pretty good job, althouhg George Peppard would have been better. natalie Wood was nice and cute as Grant Austin's daughter, but she looked a little too sexy for the innocent young girl in the book.

Dean Jagger did ok as Grant Austen; he was dry, but so was Austen in the book. E.G. Marshall, a very fine actor, was miscast as Winston Conway. He just didn't look like the slick, though very competent and creative very handsome white haired attorney. Well, he did play a lawyer in a well known TV series, so maybe his casting was logical. He just didn't look the part as I had expected.

Books about business are often dull, or were dull until "Wall Street" came out in 1987. And I thought this was dull, while the book was interesting.

That's just a few comments. The cast tried, but didn't quite make it. Jones was atrocius, but the others were passable to good.

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Jones was very good. This was one of his best roles, and I've seen most of them. Good movie.

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