Patterns

Patterns — Plot

"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

• Release date
• January 12, 1955
• Runtime
• 53 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• Fielder Cook

Patterns — Cast

Richard Kiley Fred Staples Everett Sloane Mr. Ramsie Ed Begley Andy Sloane Elizabeth Montgomery Ann Evans June Dayton Fran Staples Elizabeth Wilson Marge Fleming

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Joanna Roos Miss Lanier

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Jack Arthur Starter