This movie has an excellent cast who all put in strong efforts, but I just couldn't find anything to care about in this movie. There's a good message near the end about the importance of quality and serving the consumers over a financial bottom line, but it's a bit didactic and doesn't have a strong drama to back it up. The only tension is who of the executives is going to take over the company. They jockey for influence, plot, confide to their spouses, and that's basically it. Barbara Stanwyck is barely in this at all. I was hoping she would inherit the company at the beginning, as the plot premise indicated, and that we would get an interesting story of her making big changes at a company and dealing with the company consequences. No such luck, although she does get some pathos near the end. Instead it's a bunch of men who only care about a company or power engaging in a very slow and boring struggle for the presidency of the company. We know almost nothing about the what the company does or what it means, or what anyone wants to do with it, or why we should care. I tried to care but wasn't able to. The whole story seems like a missed opportunity. Too bad, such a good cast of actors without a story to tell.
Review of Executive Suite
