- A man is greeted as a war hero in his hometown due to a photo from Korea of Marilyn Monroe and him in LIFE magazine. He ends collecting insurance payments - basically conning poor people. He befriends a cute rich girl and a poor old woman.
- Handsome Korean war veteran Jerry Shand gets a particularly enthusiastic welcome in his country home town because of a picture in Life magazine of him as Marilyn Monroe's driver during her visit to the troops. Laundretet daughter Leslie waited for fiancé Jerry faithfully, but now he has a scholarship he's seduced at college by spoiled, fickle factory heiress Claire Gundry. To pay for his studies, father being disabled, he hopes his looks will pay off as salesman, but fails bitterly with Life Magazine. So he transfers to Sam's funeral insurances, where the profit is in canceling every account failing to pay up in consecutive weeks, but feels guilty and covers for some slum clients.—KGF Vissers
- This movie tells a rarely discussed aspect of American life prior to the passage of Civil Rights. Back in those days many states within the American Deep South had laws that made it illegal for people of color to be sold any life insurance that carried a Death Benefit of more than a few hundred dollars which was barely even enough money to afford a decent funeral. Meanwhile during that same era, white people were able to purchase traditional life insurance policies for the same amount of money each month that would be designed to pay their surviving families as much as twenty times the benefit that would be paid to the families of deceased "colored people". This movie touches upon the "mother and son" friendship that developed between a young white insurance agent (Grant Show) and a much older black woman (Cicely Tyson). The insurance agent was tasked with going into the "colored" neighborhood each and every week to collect the insurance payments from people who were largely uneducated and unaware that they were wasting their money by feeding into an insurance program that would never pay their familes as much as what they had paid into it. His conscience begins to get to him and conflict ensues between his conscience, his need for a paycheck and what he feels is fair.
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