Cash McCall [1960][DVDRip]

In Philadelphia, Grant Austen, the founder and CEO of Austen Plastics, is being strong-armed by his primary customer, Schofield Instrument Corporation, largely a military supplier accounting for over half of Austen's business, to produce a new part requiring major investment with no guarantees on purchase numbers, or else they will take all their business to a competitor, it all, unaware to Austen, in a move to take over the company for a song in ruining Austen. It being the last straw in what has become him tiring of the rat race especially in not being inherently business-minded, Austen considers selling the company if he can find the right buyer who will meet his terms, that is without disclosing to the buyer or anyone else this issue with Schofield. Regardless, he will have to clear the issue with his young adult daughter, illustrator Lory Austen, the ten percent minority owner of the company, she who is still recovering from a romantic heartbreak last summer in Maine which she has not talked about to anyone in details. Independently, Austen's banker, Will Atherson, and Austen's business manager, Gil Clark of the management consulting firm of Corporate Associates which Austen has on retainer, find the same potential buyer, Cash McCall. What Atherson and Clark are aware of but do not pass along to Austen is that McCall is a proverbial vulture, who buys companies that are going through short term problems, only to turn around and make a profit in any way he can, usually selling for a tax loss, or decimating the company into unrecognizable pieces, again those individual components sold, with most employees as a result out of work. While he is under continual investigation by the authorities and regulators, nothing that McCall does in business is illegal, albeit seen as immoral or unethical. McCall does end up buying the company on Austen's terms, the purchase price well in excess of its true market value. It was only part way through the deal that Clark found out that he became aware of McCall as a potential buyer as McCall owns Corporate Associates. And what McCall has not divulged to anyone is that he bought the company solely to be close to Lory, as he was her Maine summertime romance. Regardless, with Clark's assistance, McCall is able to find a way to make substantial money on the deal. This financial windfall ends up putting McCall in both Scofield and Austen's cross-hairs who want to ruin him, Austen in believing that it was through collusion that he ended up with the company with this major profit. McCall is also facing some personal difficulties, as, as Lory has indeed fallen in love with him again this second time around, Maude Kennard, the Assistant Manager of the Ivanhoe Hotel, the renovated penthouse suite where McCall lives and does much of his business, is secretly in love with him and will do whatever to make sure no other woman is in his life in that romantic sense.