Harry Flowers (Bridges) is routinely humiliated both at home and at work (the German offices of an American credit card company).
Fed up, he hires prostitute Corinne (Bianca Jagger) to help him gain revenge on his quirky wife Sarah (Belinda Bauer) and her father/his boss, the overbearing Mr. Elliott (Ned Beatty) — all while enriching himself financially.
[4] The film has never received official home video distribution, but has appeared in bootleg versions under the titles The Ringer and Good as Gold.
[T]hough it periodically wears thin, American Success is a buoyant and enterprising movie more often than not, and what it lacks in coherence it makes up in dash.
"[7] Variety wrote, "Although almost everything that happens on screen is done with considerable style and a morbid sense of humor, lack of overall point ultimately sinks the picture.
"[3] In a later review, however, Time Out called the film "a delightfully offbeat satire both on capitalism and on macho posing.