When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
William Holden
as McDonald Walling
June Allyson
as Mary Blemond Walling
Barbara Stanwyck
as Julia O. Tredway
Fredric March
as Loren Phineas Shaw
Walter Pidgeon
as Frederick Y. Alderson
Shelley Winters
as Eva Bardeman
Paul Douglas
as Josiah Walter Dudley
Louis Calhern
as George Nyle Caswell
Dean Jagger
as Jesse Q. Grimm
Nina Foch
as Erica Martin
Tim Considine
as Mike Walling
William Phipps
as Bill Lundeen
