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Summary:
Rod Serling's incisive "gray flannel suit" TV drama created such a sensation when Kraft Television Theatre first aired it live on January 11, 1955 that, in an unprecedented move, it was repeated four weeks later, on February 9, again live. Richard Kiley starred as Fred Staples, a bright young man from Cincinnati brought into the executive pool at a top New York firm by ruthless ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Van Heflin - (Fred Staples)
Ed Begley, Sr. - (William Briggs)
Everett Sloane - (Walter Ramsey)
Beatrice Straight - (Nancy Staples)
Elizabeth Wilson - (Marge Fleming)
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Review:
The film version of the television play that garnered writer Rod Serling his initial acclaim, it's a forceful drama of office politics with a somewhat ambiguous ending. Although Serling's portrait of Machiavellian behavior in corporate suites can hardly have the impact it did in the '50s, when the uglier aspects of capitalism rarely mad... Continue >>

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