This looks like one of those Citizen Kane or The Carpetbaggers dramas.
Adam Winter (Eddie Albert) comes from a small no hoper town. He was in love with Allison (Fay Wray) his childhood sweetheart. Adam abandoned her to make it rich, become a big shot.
He married well, into a wealthy family but he has a loveless marriage with his wife Sarah. She gave him access to her father's company. Over time Adam has accumulated a majority shareholding in her father's power company. Forcing minor shareholders to sell to him cheaply.
Adam's ruthlessness has turned his wife against him and even his father in law despises him.
A note from Allison takes him back to his hometown. To comply with a promise he made to her years earlier.
She is in trouble, her son wants to marry his childhood sweetheart. Allison thinks it is a bad idea. He can be a go getter just like Adam. Maybe Adam could change her son's mind.
Actually the twist could be seen to be as soppy but it worked for me.
Adam Winter (Eddie Albert) comes from a small no hoper town. He was in love with Allison (Fay Wray) his childhood sweetheart. Adam abandoned her to make it rich, become a big shot.
He married well, into a wealthy family but he has a loveless marriage with his wife Sarah. She gave him access to her father's company. Over time Adam has accumulated a majority shareholding in her father's power company. Forcing minor shareholders to sell to him cheaply.
Adam's ruthlessness has turned his wife against him and even his father in law despises him.
A note from Allison takes him back to his hometown. To comply with a promise he made to her years earlier.
She is in trouble, her son wants to marry his childhood sweetheart. Allison thinks it is a bad idea. He can be a go getter just like Adam. Maybe Adam could change her son's mind.
Actually the twist could be seen to be as soppy but it worked for me.
