From the same author as the 'Executive Suite' novel Cameron Hawley, adapted by Lenore Coffee (
The Great Lie) and Marion Hargrove. James Garner is the forerunner of the Richard Gere character in
Pretty Woman whose business is buying and selling companies - only this one belongs to Natalie Wood and her dad Dean Jagger, also from
Exec Suite, as is hotel manager Nina Foch (in a slightly barking sub plot). Hard-working Henry Jones, familiar to us from
Vertigo, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and
The Girl Can't Help It, latterly much on TV, is the lawyer with a conscience. With E.G. Marshall and Otto Kruger.
Wood doesn't have much to do, really. At one point she and Garner are about to eat chilli con carne with a glass of milk. She had a lucky escape there.
It drifts along quite happily, undisturbed by anything serious. There's a definite cut in the flashback scene of Natalie stripping off (the music track jumps) which needs investigating.
Shot by George Folsey for Warner Brothers.
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