Executive Suite - Climactic Scene

[@charlespapineau5428]

Every engineer out there is standing to applaud Bill Holden. Bravo!! I love this movie so much. Great actors.

[@NaturalFlirtGamer]

From a 1952 novel to this 1954 film classic, it's amazing how relevant it remains today, as we struggle with the effects of corporate greed & what it's done to our society. Fantastic acting.

[@helenlobosco6553]

Greed exists everywhere: corporations, families, marriages, etc.!

[@Hiraghm]

@@helenlobosco6553 free market capitalism is the voluntary trading of value for value. "Greed" comes in when people, any people, want to receive value without offering it in return.

[@patnorris7915]

William Holden, what a great actor.

[@garyspence2128]

He really was the real deal. From the start to the finish of an amazing career.

[@JHarder1000]

What a scene. Two of the greatest actors who ever lived, William Holden and Frederic March, go at it, hammer and tongs.

[@timfronimos459]

This scene should be standard viewing in all business schools everywhere.

[@Skybaby79]

"A society grows great when old men plant trees, who's shade they know they shall never sit in"

[@pennykent5687]

Sky79, Who said that??? It's beautiful. Beautiful.

[@gordondeprest]

Splendid quote, very appropriate.

[@ThePhil49]

What an incredible scene, William Holden knocks it out of the park!

[@golyg]

William Holden, Frederic Marc, Walter Pigeon...three great actors nobody knows anymore but everybody should know

[@martdelcat]

+golyg I am a fan of Classic movies. I know them....Nina Foch, and June Allison too...

[@barrytolbert3446]

+Rex Reed amen. totally agree

[@mushmorant9253]

+golyg We mustn't forget Dean Jagger, Louis Calhern and Paul Douglas who are equally worthy of remembrance and note. This is undoubtedly one of the great ensemble casts of motion picture history. The female members (Stanwyck, Foch, Allyson, Winters) are good in their supporting roles, but it is the men who truly shine and carry the show. BTW it is FREDRIC (not Frederic) and PIDGEON (not Pigeon). Walter Pidgeon's presence in a movie cast, in my opinion, always uprated the quality of the film by at least one class, making poor movies tolerable, mediocre movies good, good movies great, and great movies stupendous.

[@martdelcat]

True.... an amazing cast...all around....

[@H1delta]

And.... Barbara Stanwyck.

[@randykling138]

What a classic scene. It's 9 minutes long, but done so very, very well.

[@Wally-m9y]

Bill Holden; what a presence he is on the screen, this actor never, never disappointed an audience. I love this film, such great cast, as truly excellent & beautiful Barbara Stanwyck shows us. Great film indeed.

[@BudTCat]

William Holden, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon, Barbara Stanwyck, Dean Jagger, June Allyson, Shelley Winters, Nina Foch, Paul Douglas and directed by Robert Wise. Absolutely Hollywood's best of the best in the mid-1950s.

[@altonbeckert506]

We'll never again ask a man to do anything that will poison his pride in himself or his work.

[@lam6572]

William Holden's warning to the company board members was some stunning foreshadowing! Too bad the ideals of “stakeholder capitalism” lost out to what ails today's world -- the corporate greed of “shareholder capitalism.” William Holden is the Everyman idealized!... a favorite!

[@CoachLeeNWI]

So true today as 60 years ago. My favorite quote was "the quick and easy is a lost of faith in the future."

[@CoachLeeNWI]

Thanks Carter

[@CoachLeeNWI]

Thanks Aidan Foley for the Google+

[@CoachLeeNWI]

Thanks Ray Kaelin for the Google +

[@BartholomewSmutz]

It takes some very good writing and acting to make the inner workings of a furniture company seem interesting.

[@pauls.9228]

Incredible film! Some of the very best actors of that or any generation, with a script for the ages.

[@johnnybrighton9156]

Great scene, but it's a shame the next bit isn't on there, where Walling walks to the head of the table and shakes Shaw's hand. It's a clear indication that Walling means what he'd said about uniting the Tredway workers in a common goal.

[@heru-deshet359]

I loved the architectural details of this movie in the interiors and the furnishings used in all of the scenes. They're timeless.

[@AccentShmaccent]

Yes, indeed!

[@irish89055]

Even the way the company president died at the beginning was realistic... the widow maker heart attack

[@timothy8017]

I almost stayed home from work. For half an hour.. So I could sit there and watch the end of this. I had to say to myself. "Dummy! You can watch it on KZbin".

[@ivoe1574]

"Improve the profit & not the product!" I also liked the earlier reference in the film describing the president of the company coming down to the factory floor and tossing badly made furniture to wall and screaming "Not good enough!!" Although I think it would of been more dramatic if he would of grabbed a fire ax off the wall and chopped it up in front of all his employees and said "If I ever see this kinda crap made here again I will use this axe on you!" :) Real old school! lol! I can’t remember if it was Marshall Field or Stanly Marcus who coined the phrase “The quality is remembered long after the price has been forgotten” "Always for better" - Herbert Marcus Cofounder of Neiman-Marcus. back when they where a struggling little store in Dallas.

[@michaelwolfe7105]

Mike Field, It was Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce, who said "the quality will remain when the price is forgotten".

[@Direct.injection212]

United Airlines and Boeing need to watch this.

[@Spiderman7Bob7]

This is the role that William Holden should have gotten an Oscar for, not "Stalog17"

[@jpcatgirl5916]

I agree William Holden's acting in this movie is oscar worthy along with many of his other movie roles.

[@juanitajones6900]

Both, as far as I'm concerned.

[@Graciela-dx6if]

He almost always gave Oscar worrthy performances:Sunset Boulevard,STalag 17,Executive Suitde,The counterfeit Traitor,The Wild Bunch,Breezy,Network.,The Hearthling.,SOB.j

[@dukeford8893]

@@Graciela-dx6if Agreed, but he also gave a lot of mediocre performances in mediocre movies.

[@Graciela-dx6if]

I agree Holden made some mediocre movies,especially in the forties when he was forging his career and for contractual obligations but his performances were adequate to the material he had to deal with.

[@beechnut8779]

Wow, what a speech!

[@Wally-m9y]

Holden was the consummate actor, the man was one that held everyone to that tall screen at the theaters.

[@godlyblessedliibaangodisgo4394]

And we never again ask man to do anything that will poison his pride in himself or his work

[@pennykent5687]

Oh...🤧

[@AndyKashen]

That's one of the best speeches in film. It ranks high in my favorites along with some from The Godfather, Seven Days in May, Citizen Kane, Planet of the Apes (original - screenplay by Rod Serling who also did Seven Days in May), Spartacus, and Paths of Glory. You rarely see a great movie speech anymore that has real depth like this.

[@raykaelin]

OUTSTANDING!

[@davidpar2]

Scenes like this prove how smart Barbara Stanwyck was. She knew how much potential he had back in 1939

[@stephanijaolds8630]

davidpar2 You're absolutely right because his brilliant performance was to make her proud. 😭😭😭

[@diplomatt22]

Always loved this scene

[@mdelgoldberg]

Best business scene in any movie ever. Better than "Greed is Good". Shaw lost in this movie, but won in Real Life!

[@mdelgoldberg]

If the film was made today, Treadwell would be saddled with debt following years of share buybacks.

[@kevinfarrell523]

Robert Wise?

[@christiancarruthers635]

sad but true . Its still good to see it was challenged though

[@dougmarshall4010]

There’s a Boeing management meeting. Let’s replace engineers with accountants. To hell with safety.

[@stefanmeier279]

Smoking in the workplace, how shocking !

[@jeffpowanda8821]

Lesson Learned: Never let anyone in a board room stand to make a speech. Otherwise, he'll have your job in a few minutes.

[@juanitajones6900]

Fredric March's comments on shareholders' profits sounds chillingly familiar.

[@kevinfarrell523]

A Robert Wise film Screenplay by Ernest Lehman Produced by John Houseman .

[@jasonwarren9279]

How far we've fallen. We live in The Age of Whores. No one commits to anything or anyone. Relationships are all 2 years long at the most, be they business, romantic, or personal. Our whole culture is hook up culture, especially business relationships. As a business owner, you sit down with a salesman, and he is fantastic and you base your decision on the man in front of you. But, the thing is is that the contract you sign is for 5 years, and the salesman will be canned in less than 18 months. There's no chance to develop a working relationship with anyone anymore.

[@ronaldmadican2393]

It's a great film but in the real world it's become "How can we use cheap labour and tax evasion" to meet the same ends. It's not hurt pride but real suffering that is the new corporate mantra. Greed is good.

[@Hiraghm]

Nobody defines greed. People usually think of it as an excessive desire for profit, but that's not it. Greed is wanting something for nothing, whether you're a CEO or a janitor. Greed is wanting more value than the value you're offering in exchange.

[@pennykent5687]

Sad, but true.

[@danielstith5227]

Ironic how this message has been lost in today's corporate world. All factors lost except squeezing every penny of profit even at the cost of quality and pride in our work and products. Also brings forth a corollary issue of compensation. The vast majority of compensation increases have gone to the 'paper pushers' at the top of the org chart and the people who truly are the heart and soul of a company are frequently derided and given short shrift on any financial benefits the company garners from their efforts.

[@MRCKify]

I don't see it as ironic, just today's iteration of a timeless argument.

[@Hiraghm]

We have forgotten that capitalism is not profit-maximizing. Capitalism is trading value for value.

[@MRCKify]

Joint product and memento mori

[@pennykent5687]

And I don't think he's talking about Walmapart.

[@mushmorant9253]

The obvious message and lesson here is that the visionary innovators, risk takers and others concerned with product and service quality should be the ones we regard as the true heroes of the capitalist system, while those who pinch pennies and attempt to maximize efficiency and profit with little regard for those other things (for the majority of these types, it matters not what kinds of products or services the company deals in and they have no inherent interest therein) are an entirely different breed and not worthy of our admiration and are most likely worthy of our scorn. Unfortunately where the Occupy types have things at least partially right is in their contention that today's large corporations are run much more commonly by the latter type of executive (this movie heralded that trend) than the former.

[@JamieRobles1]

There is also that sentence that concerns me. Shaw talks about government subsidies AND THIS is suppose to be the Golden Years that a lot of people yearn for.

[@lindasmilesrfree6067]

What he was referring to was the integrity of a company!

[@lindasmilesrfree6067]

What he was referring to was the integrity of a company!

[@lindasmilesrfree6067]

What he was referring to was the integrity of a company!

[@christopher8220]

I wonder if Warren Buffet had seen this when he was forming the dividend policy of Berkshire Hathaway...!!!

[@pennykent5687]

Warren Buffet. You mean that gave away a huge chunk of his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation on national TV.... That Warren Buffet? The guy who put all that money in the hands of those evil people, to help them so that they could turning around and later annihilate us with a loaded up Coronavirus vaccine. 💉☠️ Is that the person your talking about?!!!🤬⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️

[@civonious]

The people at IKEA must hate this movie.

[@irish89055]

😁😅🤣

[@orator40]

Please, can anyone upload the full length movie?

[@kenlower5634]

Exellent! Now if you don't mind I'm of to target.

[@pennykent5687]

Hah, hah, hah. You'll be back, to buy the same crap over, and over, and over again..

[@holzmann-]

Climite change is a hoax

[@garyspence2128]

You wouldn't say that if you lived in Arizona, Florida, or a hundred other spots on the globe...

[@DavidSmith-qo1se]

Trump should watch it.

[@DavidSmith-qo1se]

You shouldn't talk about things you know nothing about. He's the same age as me, and there's nothing great about him, except he's a GREAT BIG liar. Go back to bed.

[@Hiraghm]

@@DavidSmith-qo1se and what are you doing with your billions of dollars?

[@DavidSmith-qo1se]

@@Hiraghm Wasting it on women and drink.

[@pennykent5687]

Can't teach an old dog new tricks.

[@DavidSmith-qo1se]

@@pennykent5687 I agree. But, you know what they say about Karma. It's a bitch.