Robert Wise's 1954 boardroom drama winds up disingenuously pulling most of its corporate punches, but it was still the pioneering effort in a genre that's long since gone out of fashion. The president of a large company dies, and a struggle for corporate control ensues. With Fredric March, William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Louis Calhern, and Nina Foch—the kind of heavy-artillery cast that always spelled Hollywood compromise.
By
Pat Graham
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