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This fact-based film captures the tumultuous moments leading up to the 1929 stock market crash. The story follows numerous characters whose lives are affected, from a stock exchange officer with severe money troubles to a mother and father intent on marrying their daughter off to a rich family. Also portrayed are those whose actions played a hand in the crash, including Wall Street tycoon Jesse Livermore (Richard Crenna) and William Durant (David Ogden Stiers), the founder of General Motors.