Everett Sloane — Actor (14)
Patterns (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Patterns
director: Fielder Cook actor: Van Heflin / Everett Sloane
other title: I giganti uccidono / Morgen trifft es dich
To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent new hire his new yes man.
Patterns (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Patterns
director: Fielder Cook actor: Richard Kiley / Everett Sloane
"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.
High Tor (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
High Tor
High Tor is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. Anderson first considered a musical adaptation of High Tor for television in 1949. He and John Monks Jr. adapted the play as a made-for-television musical fantasy in 1955, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Anderson. High Tor was filmed in November 1955 by Desilu Productions at the RKO-Pathé Studio and broadcast March 10, 1956 on the CBS television network, as a 90-minute episode of the series Ford Star Jubilee. Bing Crosby, Julie Andrews, Nancy Olson, Hans Conreid, and Keenan Wynn starred in the film, produced by Arthur Schwartz, and directed by James Neilson.
Prince of Foxes (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Prince of Foxes
director: Henry King actor: Tyrone Power / Orson Welles
other title: Il principe delle volpi / In den Klauen des Borgia
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...
The Man from the Diners' Club (1963) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Man from the Diners' Club
director: Frank Tashlin actor: Danny Kaye / Cara Williams
other title: Il piede più lungo / Der Mann vom Diners Club
Meek credit card company clerk Ernest Klenk is feeling the pressure of demanding coworkers, new computers, and an upcoming wedding. This stress leads to a big mistake -- the accidental approval of a credit card for mobster Foots Pulardos, who is planning to flee to Mexico with his girlfriend, Sugar Pye, to avoid criminal charges. When Klenk tries to fix his mix-up, he gets dangerously involved in Foots' scheme.
The Disorderly Orderly (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Disorderly Orderly
director: Frank Tashlin actor: Jerry Lewis / Glenda Farrell
other title: Pazzi, pupe e pillole / Der Tölpel vom Dienst
Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!
The Patsy (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Patsy
director: Jerry Lewis actor: Jerry Lewis / Ina Balin
other title: Jerry 8 e 3/4 / O Otário
Eccentric bellhop Stanley Belt is recruited unexpectedly by the comedy team of a recently deceased entertainer. Stanley struggles to become a song-and-dance man as the team grooms him to become a star. But as the date of a high-stakes appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show grows near, they begin to fear that the only astonishing thing about Stanley is his utter lack of talent.