Agrega una trama en tu idiomaWhen Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.
- Nominada a1 premio BAFTA
- 1 nominación en total
- D.J. Vandeventer
- (as Jack Livesy)
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- TriviaA rare film for the era in that it does not have a musical score.
- ErroresThe dialog in the final scenes, starting with Staples' conversation with his wife in a coffee shop near his office, indicate the events take place well into the evening. However, the exterior shot linking this scene with Staples' confrontation with Ramsey in the Ramsey & Company building, as well as the exterior shot that follows the confrontation, were both taken in broad daylight.
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Bill Briggs: On our level you don't get fired, you know that. After thirty years of productive work, they can't say to a man like me, "Alright, now get out!" They just can't do that. So what do they do? They create a situation. A situation you can't work in and finally that you can't live in with this tension, abuse. Small humiliations. It all starts out on a scale so subtle, so microscopic that at first you can't really believe it's happening at all. But gradually the thing begins to take shape. The pieces fit together - all the little bits. And it becomes unmistakable. They chip away at your pride, your security until you begin to have doubts, and then fears.
- ConexionesReferenced in American Masters: Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995)
What Heflin doesn't realize is that he's the object of a corporate power play. Sloane is hard driving, ruthless executive usually in the kind of role Ed Begley plays. For once Ed Begley is a nice guy in a film. He's a decent soul unlike Sloane, but he's past his best years. Sloane doesn't want to fire him, just demean him enough so he'll quit. Begley's loyalties to the company stem from when Sloane's father ran the business and he can't see life beyond it.
All this comes out at the first board meeting that Heflin attends and later at a party that he and wife Beatrice Straight throw for the board members. Heflin is a confused man, caught between liking and admiring Begley and sadly knowing his future lies with Sloane.
A number of films were made in these years about corporate connivings at the top. Patterns can hold its own with any of them and that list would include Executive Suite, The Power And The Prize, Cash McCall, and B.F.'s Daughter in which Van Heflin co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck.
Patterns was originally a television drama and one of the best early scripts done by Rod Serling. Begley and Sloane repeated their roles, movie name Heflin was substituted for Richard Kiley. The filming still betrays its photographed teleplay origins, but the players more than compensate for the deficiencies there.
For a good look at how we saw corporate America in the Eisenhower years you can't do much better than Patterns or any of the other films I mentioned.
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- Pine Street and Nassau Street, Manhattan, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos(Nancy drops off Fred on his first day at work)
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- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 23 minutos
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