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A company president dies, leaving his daughter Julia (Barbara Stanwyck) to choose a successor from five candidates. The motivations, strengths and flaws of each emerge as they vie for the position, an...( read more 
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MCT:December 5, 2007McDonald Walling: If you want to stab a dead man, why don't you do it yourself, instead of having someone else do it for you?
Julia O. Treadway: Get out of here.
McDonald Walling: Go on, sell out! Smash everything he lived for. That's what you want to do, isn't it? Pay him back for loving the company more than he could love you?
Julia O. Treadway: Will you get out of here!
When John Houseman serves as the producer of a film, I most assuredly sit up and pay attention. Houseman's acumen as a producer, as a director, as a production assistant to the likes of Orson Welles on Citizen Kane, and even more visibly as a stage and screen actor on projects such as The Paper Chase, is extremely keen. Okay, so there are some poor moments in this film. The one clinch-and-break scene quoted at the top here is a prime example. Overall, however, William Holden's acting lifts this cunning portrait of corporate business mentality to a whole new higher plane. What do you think?
On the heels of having watched Stalag 17 for the umpteenth time last week, a role for which Holden was nominated for Best Actor, I have to say that, in my first viewing of Executive Suite, he's even better here. You watch this and you know why he rose to the top of the Hollywood acting food chain. Contrast the very wooden moment cited above with his dressing down of the Treadway board of directors scene just before the movie ends, and you will see Mr. Holden on absolute acting fire.
And in the scene immediately following, you'll watch Barbara Stanwyck absolutely dominate the landscape in a face-to-face with June Allyson. It's as if you're watching a split screen of two different movies. Stanwyck stands out in full 3-D relief; Allyson is almost a paper silhouette, a kind of Javanese shadow puppet by comparison. Additionally, Fredric March and Shelley Winters prove why they went as far as they did in the acting business.
What a wonderful, if uneven, film. Mr. Houseman, you are truly missed. Gotta add William Holden to my all-time favorite actors list pronto : )
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MCT:August 5, 2007this should be a pathetic waste of time. i mean drama in the high society stock broker ppl? yawn. but holdens big speech, damn, second of all time only to Mr. Smith.. WOW did i feel that. fabulous work of film right here. so unusual, but so glorious.
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