Fielder Cook — Director (8)
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.
The Farmer's Daughter (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Farmer's Daughter
director: Fielder Cook actor: Lee Remick / Peter Lawford
Young Swedish-American Katrin "Katie" Holstrom leaves her family farm in Minnesota, headed for nursing school. After her tuition money runs out, she is forced to take a job as a maid in the home of Congressman Glenn Morley. Holstrom endears herself to the genteel Morley, and begins to show a surprising aptitude for politics herself. She launches a campaign for Congress, and, as right-wing reactionaries plot against her, a romance develops.
Prudence and the Pill (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Prudence and the Pill
director: Fielder Cook / Ronald Neame actor: Deborah Kerr / David Niven
other title: Prudenza e la pillola / Sarilhos Conjugais
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?