> I watched two more of Garner's lesser movies.
>
> "Cash McCall" is adapted from a Cameron Hawley by Lenore J. Coffee and
> Marion Hargrove. Hargrove wrote a number of "Maverick" episodes, a
> couple of "Nichols", and a "Bret Maverick" episode and the adapted
> screenplay for another Garner movie, "Boys' Night Out".
>
> It's one of Garner's earliest movies, only his second film starring
> role. Does anyone know if it was in production after the second season
> of "Maverick" or the third?
>
> Garner is a businessman who buys failing companies then turns them
> around for a quick sale. He romances Natalie Wood, the daughter of the
> owner of the currently targeted business (Dean Jagger). Henry Jones
> plays the management consultant who works for Garner who was in a
> total of six movies with Garner. The great E G Marshall is his lawyer.
> The beautiful Nina Foch thinks she's in love with Garner and tries to
> come between him and Miss Wood.
>
> Miss Foch was a guest star in numerous episodes of Universal tv dramas
> in the 1970's but not an episode of "Rockford Files".
>
> The acting is fine but the script is poor, failing to give the
> characters any motives for their actions. By the end of the movie,
> everything has happened with little surprise but you're left wondering
> why any of it happened at all.
>
> "36 Hours" is certainly intriguing. Produced around the same time as
> "The Americanization of Emily" but released afterward, the invasion of
> Normandy is key to the plot. I swear, some of the sets look the same
> as well as the footage of the launch point for the invasion itself.
> Both were MGM so I suppose it's possible.
>
> Garner plays an American intelligence officer whose close to the
> Allied generals planning the D-Day invasion. He works with a British
> colonel, Alan Napier (Alfred from "Batman"). He runs a contact in
> Portugal but suspects he's being fed false intelligence by the
> Germans. His general, Russell Thorson (Capt. Bart Friday on radio's I
> Love A Mystery and was in "House on Willis Avenue"), orders him to
> meet with his contact anyway to verify some last bit of intelligence.
> Garner objects. What if he's captured? He knows too many important
> details of the planned invasion.
>
> Sure enough, he's captured.
>
> A German psychiatrist, Rod Taylor, has developed a radical
> interrogation technique in which enemy soldiers are captured but
> tricked into believing the war is long ended by a false setting, then
> being led into revealing their secrets. A similar setup is the basis
> of "The Prisoner" starring Patrick McGoohan; Garner looking out his
> window at the facility's grounds was used in the tv show's title
> sequence.
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