This is an awesome movie. If you have seen and enjoyed Rod Serlings “Patterns” you will love Executive Suite”. This is all about how corporate america works behind the scenes. The fictional Treadway Corporation is full of back stabbers corporate higher ups who are predigious lairs, cheats, drunks and flim flam men willing to do anything they must to beef up the bottom line.
With these people running a business is nothing but a bottom line driven process. People, employees, towns and everything else is expendible tho those in this companies executive suite. Sit and watch while the corporate elite play God with the lives of rank and file blue collar workers, their town, their lives. Look at the class system in America laid bare as lines are clearly drawn in the Executive Suite.
Actually this 1950’s movie shows the Executive Suite in a much more tame light than it is in real life today. The guys in this movie are too sweet and gentle for todays corporate cut throat where human life is not worth anything that can not be translated into a bottom line profit! If I sound cynical to the max its because thats the way life is in the executive suite. Look at the shabby way the executive hero treats his own son interrupting all their family time together because, the corporation comes first even in front of family!
See it all for yourself in Executive Suite!
Cast
- William Holden as McDonald “Don” Walling
- Barbara Stanwyck as Julia O. Tredway
- Fredric March as Loren Phineas Shaw
- Walter Pidgeon as Frederick Y. Alderson
- Paul Douglas as J. Walter Dudley
- Louis Calhern as George Nyle Caswell
- Dean Jagger as Jesse Q. Grimm
- June Allyson as Mary Blemond Walling
- Nina Foch as Erica Martin
- Shelley Winters as Eva Bardeman