Oct 6th  
Patterns**  
(US 1956)   
United Artists. 84m. bw

An executive moves to a New York corporation and befriends a colleague whom he realises he has been hired to replace.
Compelling boardroom melodrama, more forceful and direct than it would probably be in reality, with the writer allowing the actors plenty of reign for venting their feelings.

Written by: Rod Serling, from his TV play.
Producers: Michael Myerberg, Jed Harris.
Director: Fielder Cook.
Starring: Van Heflin, Ed Begley, Everett Sloane, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson, Ronnie Welsh, Edward Binns.
Photography: Boris Kaufman.
Music: none.