Executive Suite
1954VOTE NOW
| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: April 30, 1954 |
Summary:
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Genre(s):
Drama, Romance
Runtime:
104 min
All-star boardroom intrigue, with William Holden, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon and others vying for corporate control after a company chairman dies. [19 Nov 1997, p.M]
This John Houseman production is a real pro job, of a calibre that doesn't come along too often. Cameron Hawley's novel, Executive Suite, was good reading, and Ernest Lehman has fashioned it into screen form as a dramatically interesting motion picture humanizing big business and its upper echelon personalities.
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The boardroom finale pits William Holden's junior exec against Fredric March's numbers-obsessed comptroller (interestingly, just three years after March played Willy Loman on screen in Death of a Salesman). Both are tops, and superb all-star casting also enables Barbara Stanwyck to go into big-scene hysterics. June Allyson even plays catch with young Tim Considine in one scene, and she's pretty good. [09 Nov 2007, p.7E]
Director ROBERT WISE's Executive Suite intelligently examines the rivalries among executives of an American corporation. [21 Apr 2002, p.9]
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