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Patterns (1955)

Patterns (1955)

Drama TV Movie
Release Date: 1955, January 12
Directors: Fielder Cook
Production: J. Walter Thompson Agency, Kraft Foods
Cast: Ed Begley, Richard Kiley, Elizabeth Wilson, Everett Sloane, June Dayton, Elizabeth Montgomery, Theodore Newton, Joanna Roos, Jack Livesey, Ronnie Welsh, Shirley Standlee, Jack Arthur

Overview:

"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.