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Patterns

7.2 83 mins Drama   1956
Jed Harris   Michael Myerberg   United Artists  
Director(s): Fielder Cook

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.

Casts of Patterns

Van Heflin

as Fred Staples

Everett Sloane

as Walter Ramsey

Ed Begley

as Bill Briggs

Beatrice Straight

as Nancy Staples

Elizabeth Wilson

as Marge Fleming

Joanna Roos

as Margaret Lanier

Valerie Cossart

as Martha Stevens

Eleni Kiamos

as Sylvia Trammel

Ronnie Welsh

as Paul Briggs

Shirley Standlee

as Miss Hill

Andrew Duggan

as Harvey Jameson

Jack Livesey

as D.J. Vandeventer

John Seymour

as Ed Gordon

Sally Gracie

as Ann

Sally Chamberlin

as Mrs. Jameson

Edward Binns

as Elevator Starter

James Kelly

as Jim Latham

John Shelly

as Edgar Grannigan

Victor Harrison

as Carl Portier

Ethel Britton

as Woman (uncredited)

Michael Dreyfuss

as Billy (uncredited)

Elaine Kaye

as Second Secretary (uncredited)

Adrienne Moore

as First Secretary (uncredited)

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