Executive Suite
Summary:
Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and director Robert Wise, working successfully in the slickest MGM style. When Avery Bullard, the hard-charging president of Tredway, the third-largest furniture maker in the United States, dies suddenly at the end of a business week, it sets off a scramble among ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
William Holden - (McDonald Walling)
June Allyson - (Mary Blemond Walling)
Barbara Stanwyck - (Julia O. Tredway)
Fredric March - (Loren Phineas Shaw)
Walter Pidgeon - (Frederick Y. Alderson)
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Review:
Robert Wise's Executive Suite, based on Cameron Hawley's early 1950s novel of corporate politics and power-plays, has scarcely dated at all across six decades -- a survivor of corporate America, Hawley knew whereof he wrote, and screenwriter Ernest Lehman understood drama in a manner that few of his peers could match. The players are un... Continue >>
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