Executive Suite - (Movie Clip) He's A Big Man

Executive Suite - (Original Trailer)

When a business magnate dies, his board of directors fights over who should run the company in Executive Suite (1954), directed by Robert Wise.

Executive Suite -- (Movie Clip) We'll Drop That Line!

Executive McDonald Walling (William Holden) starts busting furniture, making his point before the board (Dean Jagger, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Paul Douglas et al) in Robert Wise's Executive Suite, 1954.

Executive Suite (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Number Two Man

Walling (William Holden), junior man on the board, consoles assistant Erica (Nina Foch) then checks in with mentor Alderson (Walter Pidgeon), whom he prefers to powerful bean counter Shaw (Fredric March), following the death of the company president, in Robert Wise's Executive Suite, 1954.

Executive Suite -- (Movie Clip) It Woud End All This

Secretary Erica (Nina Foch) asks vice-president Alderson (Walter Pidgeon) to handle tempestuous majority stockholder Julia (Barbara Stanwyck), nobody yet knowing the boss is dead, in Robert Wise's Executive Suite, 1954.

Executive Suite -- (Movie Clip) One Man Company

Director Robert Wise's opening from Ernest Lehman's screenplay, subjective camera (Raoul Freeman as "Bullard") with Caswell (Louis Calhern) and Steigel (Edgar Stehli) chatting, in the all-star corporate drama Executive Suite, 1954.

Executive Suite (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Dream Is Dead

Still nobody knowing that company president Bullard has died, top designer "Mac" (William Holden) departs the plant after a failed test, with wife Mary (June Allyson), their spat leaving director Robert Wise to join Grimm (Dean Jagger) and wife (Mary Adams), in Executive Suite, 1954.