La Tour des ambitieux
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Avery Bullard, président de la fabrique de meubles Tredway, vient de mourir d’une crise cardiaque. N’ayant pas nommé de successeur, le conseil d’administration doit voter pour son remplacement. Aussitôt une lutte sans merci pour la conquête du poste va se dérouler entre les sous-directeurs. Loren Phineas Shaw, le favori, est plus préoccupé par la rentabilité de l’entreprise que par sa qualité. Il veut le pouvoir, quitte à employer le chantage. Julia Tredway, veuve du fondateur et actionnaire principale, trop affectée par la mort de Bullard dont elle était amoureuse a tout de suite promis son soutien à Shaw. Frederick Alderson, le vice-président, est un homme intègre mais il se sent dépassé par la situation et ne compte pas briguer le poste. Il fonde ses espoirs sur McDonald Walling, jeune ingénieur idéaliste, qui hésite encore à se présenter...
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Cast
Gus Schilling
as Newsstand Vendor (uncredited)
Dean Jagger
as Jesse Q. Grimm
Maidie Norman
as Housekeeper (uncredited)
Harry Shannon
as Ed Benedeck
Jonathan Cott
as Officer Canady (uncredited)
Dan Riss
as City Editor (uncredited)
William Phipps
as Bill Lundeen
Barbara Stanwyck
as Julia O. Tredway
Tim Considine
as Mike Walling
Gene Coogan
as Secondary Role (uncredited)
Kasia Orzazewski
as Liz (uncredited)
Ann Tyrrell
as Miss Nordley (uncredited)
William Holden
as McDonald Walling
Nina Foch
as Erica Martin
Jeffrey Sayre
as Little League Baseball Fan (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
as Laboratory Worker (uncredited)
June Allyson
as Mary Blemond Walling
Bess Flowers
as Woman at Bar (uncredited)
Faith Geer
as Stork Club Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Hamilton Camp
as Mailroom Boy (uncredited)
David McMahon
as Reporter (uncredited)
Louis Calhern
as George Nyle Caswell
Jimmie Horan
as Sidewalk Passerby (uncredited)
Mike Lally
as Spectator at Game (uncredited)
Leota Lorraine
as Businesswoman (uncredited)
John McKee
as Umpire (uncredited)
Matt Moore
as Servant (uncredited)
Chet Huntley
as Narrator / Voice of Tredway (voice) (uncredited)
May McAvoy
as Grimm's Secretary (uncredited)
John Banner
as Henri - Stork Club Maître D' (uncredited)
Phil Chambers
as Toll Booth Attendant (uncredited)
John Doucette
as Detective (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
as Factory Worker (uncredited)
Willis Bouchey
as Detective (uncredited)
Helen Brown
as Miss Clark (uncredited)
Walter Pidgeon
as Frederick Y. Alderson
Charles Wagenheim
as Luigi Cassoni (uncredited)
Fredric March
as Loren Phineas Shaw
Edgar Stehli
as Julius Steigel
Burt Mustin
as Sam Teal (uncredited)
Paul Douglas
as Josiah Walter Dudley
Paul Bryar
as Stork Club Waiter (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
as Worker (uncredited)
Shelley Winters
as Eva Bardeman
Virginia Brissac
as Edith Alderson
Crew
William Tuttle
Makeup Artist
Robert Wise
Director
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
Ralph E. Winters
Editor
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Ernest Lehman
Screenplay
Helen Rose
Costume Designer
George J. Folsey
Director of Photography
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Sydney Guilaroff
Hairstylist
John Houseman
Producer