The Moneychangers (TV in 4 episodes),
USA 1976, color

with Anne Baxter

German title:	Die Bankiers
Distributed by:	NBC
Genre / keyword:	Banking / finance power / based-on-novel
Directed by:	Boris Segal
Summary:	In this tale of high finance power and greed, Douglas appeared as one of two bank vice presidents, Alex Vandervoort, in conflict with the other, Roscoe Heyward (Christopher Plummer), over the position of top dog. Vandervoorts´s wife (Marisa Pavan) is mentally unstable and offers her husband little comfort or support. He finds those assets in the arms of his lawyer (Susan Flannery), a fact that does not go unnoticed by Heyward in his business maneuvering. After a massive amount of skullduggery, legal trickery, theft, chasing and loving, Vandervoort emerges the winner. The Moneychangers was itself a winner in terms of TV ratings and it was nominated for an Emmy Award as one of the outstanding mini-series of the 1976-77 season. The only actual Emmy winner from the project was Christopher Plummer. Other nominations went to Susan Flannery and to Joseph Biroc for his photography. If the series was, as the critics suggested, trash, it was at least highly professional and brightly polished. However, it apparently left Kirk Douglas with no wish ever again to be caught up in this kind of mini-series.
Cast (in credits order):	Kirk Douglas ... as Alex Vandervoort
	Christopher Plummer ... as Roscoe Heyward
	Susan Flannery ... as Margot Bracken
	Timothy Bottoms ... as Miles Eastin
	Patrick O´Neil ... as Harold Austin
	Anne Baxter ... as Edwina Dorsey
	Jean Peters ... as Beatrice Heyward
	Lorne Greene ... as George Quartermain
	Joan Collins ... as Avril Devereaux
	Marisa Pavan ... as Beatrice Vandervoort
	Ralph Bellamy ... as Jerome Devereaux
	Leonardo Cimino ... as Ben Rosselli
Written by:	Dean Riesner / Stanford Whitmore (b. on the novel by Arthur Hailey)
Photographed by:	Joseph Biroc
Music by:	Henry Mancini