"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.
Richard Kiley
as Fred Staples
Everett Sloane
as Mr. Ramsie
Ed Begley
as Andy Sloane
Elizabeth Montgomery
as Ann Evans
June Dayton
as Fran Staples
Elizabeth Wilson
as Marge Fleming
Joanna Roos
as Miss Lanier
Jack Arthur
as Starter
Joy Lafleur
as Miss Stevens
Sybil Baker
as Telephone Operator
Shirley Standlee
as Miss Hill
Theodore Newton
as Mr. Gordon
