Lorsque Fred Staples est embauché au conseil d'administration d'une puissante entreprise new-yorkaise, son éthique et son ambition s'affrontent.Lorsque Fred Staples est embauché au conseil d'administration d'une puissante entreprise new-yorkaise, son éthique et son ambition s'affrontent.Lorsque Fred Staples est embauché au conseil d'administration d'une puissante entreprise new-yorkaise, son éthique et son ambition s'affrontent.
- Nomination aux 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination au total
- D.J. Vandeventer
- (as Jack Livesy)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesYouthful industrial engineer Fred Staples (Van Heflin) is hired by ruthless CEO Walter Ramsey (Everett Sloane) to replace the aging Bill Briggs (Ed Begley). Heflin (48) was just seven years younger than Begley (55), and both were older than Sloane (47), the ages of the men listed when the film was released.
- GaffesThe 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.
- Citations
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.
- ConnexionsReferenced in American Masters: Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval (1995)
Everett Sloane, Ed Begley and Van Heflin really provide the viewers with an acting tour de force. Sloane as the big boss Walter Ramsey, creates a strutting despotic character that is as memorable as it is harsh, here's a man who will not "pattern" a sacking of an employee, he would rather break him into resignation!, a totally vile and cruel "pattern" tactic. Begley (superbly playing weary emotion) plays the genial and honest William Briggs, who upon welcoming Van Heflin's Fred Staples to the company, realises it's likely to be at his own cost. This giving the film a deep emotional "pattern" as Staples (Heflin to me, donning a career high) gets conflicted about his role in this company, this leads us to a truly excellent finale as Heflin and Sloane go at each other with a gripping intensity that many modern actors could do no worse than to take note of, it really is something to behold.
A fabulous movie that comes highly recommended to anyone who appreciates dialogue driven films with intelligence pouring from every frame. 9/10
- hitchcockthelegend
- 9 févr. 2009
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Sites officiels
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Patterns
- Lieux de tournage
- Pine Street and Nassau Street, Manhattan, Ville de New York, New York, États-Unis(Nancy drops off Fred on his first day at work)
- Sociétés de production
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- Durée1 heure 23 minutes
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