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8.1/10   441 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Rod Serling (teleplay)
Rod Serling (writer)
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Release Date:
26 October 1956 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Ruthless Men And Ambitious Women...Clawing For Control Of A Billion Dollar Empire!!!
Plot:
Van Heflin stars in a story about big business and the ruthlessness at the top of the ladder. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
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What Makes Sammy Run?-Koch Vision
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Rod Serling's landmark teleplay still speaks truth to power today. more (27 total)

Cast

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Van Heflin ... Fred Staples
Everett Sloane ... Walter Ramsey

Ed Begley ... William Briggs
Beatrice Straight ... Nancy Staples
Elizabeth Wilson ... Marge Fleming
Joanna Roos ... Miss Margaret Lanier
Valerie Cossart ... Miss Stevens
Eleni Kiamos ... Sylvia Trammel
Ronnie Welsh ... Paul Briggs
Shirley Standlee ... Miss Hill
Andrew Duggan ... Mr. Jameson
Jack Livesy ... Mr. Vanderventer
John Seymour ... Mr. Gordon
James Kelly ... Mr. Latham
John Shelly ... Mr. Grannigan
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Also Known As:
Patterns of Power (UK)
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USA:83 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Andrew Duggan's first movie. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: When Fred Staples is introduced in the boardroom for the first time, Walter Ramsey says he came from Queen City Tool and Die in Mansfield, Ohio. However, the Queen City refers to Cincinnati, 160 miles to the southeast. more
Quotes:
Walter Ramsey: Name your terms. All terms are negotiable.
Fred Staples: I don't think so. Not mine.
Walter Ramsey: All right. I'd just as soon not waste any time doing trading. As of now, your salary is doubled. Your stock option is doubled right down the line. Your expense account is whatever you make it. Add to that a new title, vice president.
Fred Staples: I want a lot more than that. You're not going to take me on as just another vice president you can push around. You take me as someone who hates you down to the bare nerve. Nothing in the world will ever change that. I'll argue with you, contradict you and fight you every way I know how. I'll do everything in my power to push you out and take your place myself.
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12 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
Rod Serling's landmark teleplay still speaks truth to power today., 25 June 2004
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Author: kingdaevid from Phoenix, Arizona, USA

...Rod Serling is recalled today almost exclusively for his speculative fiction television series "The Twilight Zone" and "Rod Serling's Night Gallery." Perhaps that's understandable, given the out-of-sight-out-of-mind nature of today's audiences, and the fact that the generation Serling first impressed with this lean but powerful work in 1955 on the "Kraft Television Theater" is now well into the process of dying out. Still, the kinetic nature of PATTERNS, either in this theatrical film or in the kinescoped original TV broadcast, is not lost on today's first-time viewers. It helped that two of the three leads in this picture, Everett Sloan and Ed Begley, were carried over from the TV productions (Richard Kiley was replaced in this film by Van Heflin, giving perhaps his single greatest performance). But Serling's screenplay has not lost one bit of its relevance; in fact, I'm surprised nobody's thought of remaking this one...

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