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'''''The Moneychangers''''' is a |
'''''The Moneychangers''''' is a 1975 novel written by [[Arthur Hailey]]. The plot revolves around the politics inside a major bank. |
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As the novel begins, the position of |
As the novel begins, the position of CEO of one of America's largest banks, ''First Mercantile American'', is about to become vacant due to the terminal illness of Ben Roselli, the incumbent chief, whose grandfather founded the bank. |
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Two high-ranking executives groomed for the succession begin their personal combat for the position. One, Alex Vandervoort, is honest, hard-charging, and focused on growing FMA through retail banking and embracing emerging technology; the other, Roscoe Heyward, is suave, hypocritical, and skilled in boardroom politics, and favors catering more to business than to consumers. |
Two high-ranking executives groomed for the succession begin their personal combat for the position. One, Alex Vandervoort, is honest, hard-charging, and focused on growing FMA through retail banking and embracing emerging technology; the other, Roscoe Heyward, is suave, hypocritical, and skilled in boardroom politics, and favors catering more to business than to consumers. Heyward lives in a "rambling, three-story house in the suburb of [[Shaker Heights]]," Cleveland, Ohio.<!-- {{harv|Hailey|1975|p=82}} --><ref name="HaileyMoneychangers1975">{{cite book|first=Arthur |last=Hailey|title=The Moneychangers|publisher=Doubleday|date=February 1975|pages=[https://archive.org/details/moneychangers00hail/page/472 472]|isbn=0-385-00896-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/moneychangers00hail/page/472}}</ref> |
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Many characters and plot lines interweave. Senior bank teller Miles Eastin is discovered to be defrauding the bank whilst casting guilt on another teller, a young single mother named Juanita Nunez. He is dismissed, arrested, and convicted. While in prison, he is gang-raped by a gang of fellow inmates. In prison, his knowledge of [[counterfeit]]ing brings him to the attention of a gang of [[credit card]] forgers, who offer him a job on his release. Owing money to [[loan shark]]s, and desperate not to have to go to work for a criminal organization, he tries going back to his former employer to ask for some kind of job. Nolan Wainwright, the bank's Head of Security, obviously won't hire him to work directly for the bank, but with the approval of higher management, is allowed to pay Eastin to go undercover as an affiliate of the forgers and secretly report back details of their operation to Juanita Nunez, who had forgiven him after he came to see her and apologize for what he did. She agrees to be the "[[cut-out (espionage)|cut-out]]" whom Eastin will contact, and she will report back what he tells her to Wainwright. Eastin is discovered to be a planted spy by the criminal organization and tortured, only to be rescued in the nick of time as a result of Juanita being captured by the forgers and forced to identify Eastin. She is released, but uses her [[eidetic memory|photographic memory]] to count the amount of time she spent blindfolded in the car and the movements it made, and as a result is able to lead police to the safe house where Eastin was being held and tortured. At the end, Eastin, Juanita and her daughter, Estella, move out of the state where both get new jobs. Also featured is Edwina D'Orsey, the head of FMA's flagship downtown branch, through whom a reader gains much insight into day-to-day branch banking, and her husband, Lewis, who writes a financial newsletter. |
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⚫ | As readers increasingly appreciate Vandervoort, the [[protagonist]], they learn of his troubled personal life. His advancement in banking circles has come as his marriage is failing; his wife Celia is confined to an [[Psychiatric hospital|inpatient psychiatric facility]]. Vandervoort is shown as having developed a relationship with Margot Bracken, who is depicted as a [[Political radicalism|radical]] attorney and political activist many years his junior; her attitudes sometime conflicts with Vandervoort's role at FMA. She is also related to Edwina D'Orsey, as she is her first cousin. Meanwhile, Vandervoort's [[antagonist]], Heyward, is depicted as a devout Episcopalian who strives to maintain an air of personal integrity and morality, only to slowly sacrifice them both in his pursuit of the presidency of FMA. |
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In the event, the Directors are deadlocked over the appointment and the job goes to Jerome Patterson on a temporary basis, whilst the other two manoever for the succession. |
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⚫ | As these men pursue their battle for the soon-to-be-vacant position of CEO, various issues involving the banking industry, such as [[credit card fraud]], [[embezzlement]], inflation, [[subprime lending]], and [[insider trading]] are discussed. ''First Mercantile American'' is eventually revealed to have a [[doppelganger]] in the form of an organized crime family. |
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Many characters and plot lines interweave. Miles Eastin, a senior bank teller is discovered to be defrauding the bank whilst casting guilt on another teller, a young single mother. He is dismissed, arrested and convicted. In jail, his knowledge of currency forgery brings him to the attention of a gang of forgers, who give him a job on his release. He secretly reports back to the bank's Head of Security, but is discovered and tortured, to be rescued in the nick of time. |
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⚫ | The fight for control of the bank continues under the darkening clouds of an approaching economic [[recession]]. Roscoe is manipulated into making a large, illegal and toxic loan to Supranational Corporation (SuNatCo), a multinational [[conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] (loosely based on [[International Telephone and Telegraph]], with certain elements of [[Penn Central]]) run by the powerful, unscrupulous CEO, G. G. Quartermain. It turns out that SuNatCo is on the verge of bankruptcy, using the bank's loan in a vain attempt to keep afloat. The ensuing scandal causes a [[bank run]] and panic among depositors, shareholders, and employees, with the perpetrator committing suicide rather than facing the consequences of his actions. By the vote of the board of directors, Vandervoort assumes the position of CEO of the half-ruined bank. |
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⚫ | As readers increasingly appreciate Vandervoort, the [[protagonist]], they learn of his troubled personal life. His advancement in banking circles has come as his marriage is failing; his wife is confined to |
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One of the banking innovations that Hailey mentioned in ''The Moneychangers'' is [[Automated teller machine#Docutel in the United States|Docutel]], an [[automated teller machine]],<ref name="HaileyMoneychangers1975"/>{{rp|308}} based on real technology that was issued a patent in 1974 in the United States. |
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In the novel, Jill Peacock, a journalist, interviewed First Mercantile American Bank executive VP, Alexander Vandervoort, in a suburban shopping plaza where the bank had installed the first two stainless-steel Docutel automatic tellers. Vandervoort, whose clothes looked like they were from the "fashion section of ''Esquire''" and who had the "mannerisms a la Johnny Carson", was not at all like the classical solemn, cautious banker in a double-breasted, dark blue suit. Peacock compared him to the new ATMs which embodied modern banking.<ref name="HaileyMoneychangers1975"/> |
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⚫ | The fight for control of the bank continues under the darkening clouds of an approaching economic [[recession]]. |
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The history of the real Docutel was traced in a ''New York Times'' magazine article. The breakthrough came when Don Wetzel, Vice President of Product Planning at Docutel, was waiting in a long line for a teller at a bank in Dallas, Texas in 1968. Wetzel had seen cash dispensing machines in Europe and was inspired to adapt Docutel technology, which was originally used in airport baggage handling, to create Docuteller, an American version.<ref name="NYT7June2013">{{cite news|title=Who Made That?|date=7 June 2013|series=Innovations Issue|publisher=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/2013/innovations-issue/#/?part=atm|work=York Times Magazine}}</ref> By 1969 work began on the prototype and the first working Docutel ABM was installed at [[Chemical Bank]] in New York.<ref name="ATM_Marketplace18mar2003">{{cite web|title=Rise and fall of Docutel: Part II of II|date=18 March 2003|url=http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article/136044/Rise-and-fall-of-Docutel-Part-II-of-II|publisher=ATM Marketplace|accessdate=24 August 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101118065548/http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article/136044/Rise-and-fall-of-Docutel-Part-II-of-II|archivedate=18 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="Florian2004">{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/26/377172/index.htm|title=The Money Machines|author=Ellen Florian|publisher=[[Fortune magazine|Fortune]].com}}An account of U.S. ATM history</ref> |
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''The Moneychangers'' was written before the wave of USA bank [[mergers and acquisitions|mergers]] that began in the 1980s. Under current conditions it is difficult to believe that a maimed bank, as ''First Mercantile American'' is described as being by the end of the book, could continue in business as an independent firm. Likewise, the novel predates the technological revolution and its effect on the financial services sector, with computers replacing the personal contact that characterized banking relationships when the book was written. For example, one of the book's characters is a savvy investment advisor who writes a high-priced newsletter that is typewritten and mailed to subscribers. With the technology of today, this same newsletter would be a website with the creator having a cable TV show or webcast to disseminate his advice. |
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The bank is very loosely based on the [[Bank of America]], although it is located in a Midwestern American city loosely drawing mostly from [[Cincinnati, Ohio]]. During the first 5 chapters of the book, it only describes the bank's location as a state in "the Midwest" and the state itself is never identified. |
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==On television== |
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A television miniseries bearing the same name and based on the novel was broadcast in [[1976 in television|1976]]. |
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==Miniseries== |
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The novel was adapted for television as a {{frac|6|1|2}}-hour [[NBC]] miniseries titled ''Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers'' of which its four parts aired on December 4, 1976, and each of the subsequent three Sunday evenings through December 19 as part of the network's “Big Event” format.<ref name="jjocnyt761203f">[https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/03/archives/tv-weekend.html O'Connor, John J. "TV Weekend," ''The New York Times'', Friday, December 3, 1976.] Retrieved February 6, 2021</ref> [[Ross Hunter]] and Jacque Mapes were the producers and [[Boris Sagal]] directed.<ref name="primetimeemmy77">[https://www.emmys.com/shows/moneychangers-nbc-world-premiere-movie-big ''The Moneychangers'', NBC (Awards & Nominations) – Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS).] Retrieved February 6, 2021</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&dq=Boris+Sagal+the+moneychangers&pg=PA495 Roberts, Jerry. ''Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, Volume 1''. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009.] Retrieved February 6, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgzWp3PO0s ''The Moneychangers'' Main Title – YouTube (via Damian McGowan).] Retrieved February 6, 2021</ref> |
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* [[Kirk Douglas]] as Alex Vandervoort |
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* [[Christopher Plummer]] as Roscoe Heyward |
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* [[Timothy Bottoms]] as Miles Eastin |
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* [[Susan Flannery]] as Margot Bracken |
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* [[Anne Baxter]] as Edwina Dorsey |
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* [[Percy Rodriguez|Percy Rodrigues]] as Nolan Wainwright |
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* [[Ralph Bellamy]] as Jerome Patterton |
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* [[Joan Collins]] as Avril Devereaux |
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* [[Robert Loggia]] as Tony Bear |
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* [[Marisa Pavan]] as Celia Vandervoort |
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* [[Jean Peters]] as Beatrice Heyward |
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* [[Hayden Rorke]] as Lewis Dorsey |
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* [[James Shigeta]] as Wizard Wong |
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* Amy Tivell as Juanita Nunez |
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* and [[Patrick O'Neal (actor)|Patrick O'Neal]] as Harold Austin |
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* [[Lorne Greene]] as George Quartermain |
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* [[Helen Hayes]] as Dr. McCartney |
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* [[Roger Bowen]] as Fergus Gatwick |
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* [[Leonardo Cimino]] as Ben Roselli |
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* [[Douglas Fowley|Douglas V. Fowley]] as Danny Kerrigan |
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* [[Basil Hoffman]] as Stanley Inchbeck |
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* [[Lincoln Kilpatrick]] as Deacon Euphrates |
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* [[Harry Lewis (actor)|Harry Lewis]] as George Sperrie |
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* [[Woodrow Parfrey]] as Mr. Tottenhoe |
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* [[Michael J. Shannon|Michael Shannon]] as Lew Endicott |
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* [[Stan Shaw]] as John Dinkerwell |
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* Joseph R. Sicari as Julius LaRocca |
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* [[Chick Vennera]] as Humphy Lopez |
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[[John J. O'Connor (journalist)|John J. O'Connor]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' raised concerns about the violence portrayed in the miniseries. He described the scene that concluded Part 1 involving the rape of embezzler Miles Eastin by fellow inmates as "one of the most {{sic|explicity}} sexual-assault scenes devised without benefit of outright hardcore pornography."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/22/archives/tv-14thcentury-holiday-treat.html O'Connor, John J. "TV: 14th‐Century Holiday Treat," ''The New York Times'', Wednesday, December 22, 1976.] Retrieved February 6, 2021</ref> |
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Christopher Plummer received a [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series]] in [[29th Primetime Emmy Awards|1977]].<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/articles/Article/020928/christopher-plummer-1929-2021 "Christopher Plummer (1929–2021)," Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Friday, February 5, 2021.] Retrieved February 6, 2021</ref> Three additional Primetime Emmy Award nominations were for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series|Limited or Anthology Series]], [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie|Lead Actress in a Limited Series]] (Susan Flannery) and Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Series ([[Joseph Biroc]]).<ref name="primetimeemmy77"/> |
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Revision as of 20:51, 21 July 2024
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Author | Arthur Hailey |
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Sprache | Englisch |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | February 1975 |
Publication place | Vereinigte Staaten |
Pages | 472 |
ISBN | 0-385-00896-1 |
OCLC | 1119465 |
The Moneychangers is a 1975 novel written by Arthur Hailey. The plot revolves around the politics inside a major bank.
Plot summary
As the novel begins, the position of CEO of one of America's largest banks, First Mercantile American, is about to become vacant due to the terminal illness of Ben Roselli, the incumbent chief, whose grandfather founded the bank.
Two high-ranking executives groomed for the succession begin their personal combat for the position. One, Alex Vandervoort, is honest, hard-charging, and focused on growing FMA through retail banking and embracing emerging technology; the other, Roscoe Heyward, is suave, hypocritical, and skilled in boardroom politics, and favors catering more to business than to consumers. Heyward lives in a "rambling, three-story house in the suburb of Shaker Heights," Cleveland, Ohio.[1]
Many characters and plot lines interweave. Senior bank teller Miles Eastin is discovered to be defrauding the bank whilst casting guilt on another teller, a young single mother named Juanita Nunez. He is dismissed, arrested, and convicted. While in prison, he is gang-raped by a gang of fellow inmates. In prison, his knowledge of counterfeiting brings him to the attention of a gang of credit card forgers, who offer him a job on his release. Owing money to loan sharks, and desperate not to have to go to work for a criminal organization, he tries going back to his former employer to ask for some kind of job. Nolan Wainwright, the bank's Head of Security, obviously won't hire him to work directly for the bank, but with the approval of higher management, is allowed to pay Eastin to go undercover as an affiliate of the forgers and secretly report back details of their operation to Juanita Nunez, who had forgiven him after he came to see her and apologize for what he did. She agrees to be the "cut-out" whom Eastin will contact, and she will report back what he tells her to Wainwright. Eastin is discovered to be a planted spy by the criminal organization and tortured, only to be rescued in the nick of time as a result of Juanita being captured by the forgers and forced to identify Eastin. She is released, but uses her photographic memory to count the amount of time she spent blindfolded in the car and the movements it made, and as a result is able to lead police to the safe house where Eastin was being held and tortured. At the end, Eastin, Juanita and her daughter, Estella, move out of the state where both get new jobs. Also featured is Edwina D'Orsey, the head of FMA's flagship downtown branch, through whom a reader gains much insight into day-to-day branch banking, and her husband, Lewis, who writes a financial newsletter.
As readers increasingly appreciate Vandervoort, the protagonist, they learn of his troubled personal life. His advancement in banking circles has come as his marriage is failing; his wife Celia is confined to an inpatient psychiatric facility. Vandervoort is shown as having developed a relationship with Margot Bracken, who is depicted as a radical attorney and political activist many years his junior; her attitudes sometime conflicts with Vandervoort's role at FMA. She is also related to Edwina D'Orsey, as she is her first cousin. Meanwhile, Vandervoort's antagonist, Heyward, is depicted as a devout Episcopalian who strives to maintain an air of personal integrity and morality, only to slowly sacrifice them both in his pursuit of the presidency of FMA.
As these men pursue their battle for the soon-to-be-vacant position of CEO, various issues involving the banking industry, such as credit card fraud, embezzlement, inflation, subprime lending, and insider trading are discussed. First Mercantile American is eventually revealed to have a doppelganger in the form of an organized crime family.
The fight for control of the bank continues under the darkening clouds of an approaching economic recession. Roscoe is manipulated into making a large, illegal and toxic loan to Supranational Corporation (SuNatCo), a multinational conglomerate (loosely based on International Telephone and Telegraph, with certain elements of Penn Central) run by the powerful, unscrupulous CEO, G. G. Quartermain. It turns out that SuNatCo is on the verge of bankruptcy, using the bank's loan in a vain attempt to keep afloat. The ensuing scandal causes a bank run and panic among depositors, shareholders, and employees, with the perpetrator committing suicide rather than facing the consequences of his actions. By the vote of the board of directors, Vandervoort assumes the position of CEO of the half-ruined bank.
Real-life background
One of the banking innovations that Hailey mentioned in The Moneychangers is Docutel, an automated teller machine,[1]: 308 based on real technology that was issued a patent in 1974 in the United States.
In the novel, Jill Peacock, a journalist, interviewed First Mercantile American Bank executive VP, Alexander Vandervoort, in a suburban shopping plaza where the bank had installed the first two stainless-steel Docutel automatic tellers. Vandervoort, whose clothes looked like they were from the "fashion section of Esquire" and who had the "mannerisms a la Johnny Carson", was not at all like the classical solemn, cautious banker in a double-breasted, dark blue suit. Peacock compared him to the new ATMs which embodied modern banking.[1]
The history of the real Docutel was traced in a New York Times magazine article. The breakthrough came when Don Wetzel, Vice President of Product Planning at Docutel, was waiting in a long line for a teller at a bank in Dallas, Texas in 1968. Wetzel had seen cash dispensing machines in Europe and was inspired to adapt Docutel technology, which was originally used in airport baggage handling, to create Docuteller, an American version.[2] By 1969 work began on the prototype and the first working Docutel ABM was installed at Chemical Bank in New York.[3][4]
The bank is very loosely based on the Bank of America, although it is located in a Midwestern American city loosely drawing mostly from Cincinnati, Ohio. During the first 5 chapters of the book, it only describes the bank's location as a state in "the Midwest" and the state itself is never identified.
Miniseries
The novel was adapted for television as a 6+1⁄2-hour NBC miniseries titled Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers of which its four parts aired on December 4, 1976, and each of the subsequent three Sunday evenings through December 19 as part of the network's “Big Event” format.[5] Ross Hunter and Jacque Mapes were the producers and Boris Sagal directed.[6][7][8]
- Starring
- Kirk Douglas as Alex Vandervoort
- Christopher Plummer as Roscoe Heyward
- Timothy Bottoms as Miles Eastin
- Susan Flannery as Margot Bracken
- Anne Baxter as Edwina Dorsey
- Percy Rodrigues as Nolan Wainwright
- Guest starring
- Ralph Bellamy as Jerome Patterton
- Joan Collins as Avril Devereaux
- Robert Loggia as Tony Bear
- Marisa Pavan as Celia Vandervoort
- Jean Peters as Beatrice Heyward
- Hayden Rorke as Lewis Dorsey
- James Shigeta as Wizard Wong
- Amy Tivell as Juanita Nunez
- and Patrick O'Neal as Harold Austin
- Special appearance by
- Lorne Greene as George Quartermain
- Helen Hayes as Dr. McCartney
- Co-starring
- Roger Bowen as Fergus Gatwick
- Leonardo Cimino as Ben Roselli
- Douglas V. Fowley as Danny Kerrigan
- Basil Hoffman as Stanley Inchbeck
- Lincoln Kilpatrick as Deacon Euphrates
- Harry Lewis as George Sperrie
- Woodrow Parfrey as Mr. Tottenhoe
- Michael Shannon as Lew Endicott
- Stan Shaw as John Dinkerwell
- Joseph R. Sicari as Julius LaRocca
- Chick Vennera as Humphy Lopez
John J. O'Connor of The New York Times raised concerns about the violence portrayed in the miniseries. He described the scene that concluded Part 1 involving the rape of embezzler Miles Eastin by fellow inmates as "one of the most explicity [sic] sexual-assault scenes devised without benefit of outright hardcore pornography."[9]
Christopher Plummer received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series in 1977.[10] Three additional Primetime Emmy Award nominations were for Limited or Anthology Series, Lead Actress in a Limited Series (Susan Flannery) and Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Series (Joseph Biroc).[6]
References
- ^ a b c Hailey, Arthur (February 1975). The Moneychangers. Doubleday. pp. 472. ISBN 0-385-00896-1.
- ^ "Who Made That?". York Times Magazine. Innovations Issue. New York Times. 7 June 2013.
- ^ "Rise and fall of Docutel: Part II of II". ATM Marketplace. 18 March 2003. Archived from the original on 18 November 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ Ellen Florian. "The Money Machines". Fortune.com.An account of U.S. ATM history
- ^ O'Connor, John J. "TV Weekend," The New York Times, Friday, December 3, 1976. Retrieved February 6, 2021
- ^ a b The Moneychangers, NBC (Awards & Nominations) – Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). Retrieved February 6, 2021
- ^ Roberts, Jerry. Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, Volume 1. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2021
- ^ The Moneychangers Main Title – YouTube (via Damian McGowan). Retrieved February 6, 2021
- ^ O'Connor, John J. "TV: 14th‐Century Holiday Treat," The New York Times, Wednesday, December 22, 1976. Retrieved February 6, 2021
- ^ "Christopher Plummer (1929–2021)," Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Friday, February 5, 2021. Retrieved February 6, 2021