Patterns

Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson. Climbing the ladder of big business finds a bright young engineer at odds with himself over ambition and ethics when he is hired by a ruthless, New York business owner to replace his aging, second-in-command officer. Young Fred Staples believes that people are not just pawns in a corporate game, and learns that the man he’s been hired to replace feels the same way—quite a contradiction from the way Walter Ramsey runs the "show." Based on an original story by Rod Serling. Directed by Fielder Cook. 1956/b&w/83 min/NR/fullscreen.