Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1956

The Power and the Prize (M-G-M), like Executive Suite and Patterns, starts out as if it were really going to explain the difference between the American Way of Life and the Normal Course of Business.

Unfortunately, the story goes on a bromide jag.

"What's necessary for Amalgamated," Tycoon Burl Ives harrumphs as the story gets going, "is necessary for her!" Actor Ives is Amalgamated, her is his niece, and the man he is speaking to is Robert Taylor, vice chairman of the board. What the boss is trying to say is that Taylor, who is about to amalgamate with Little Miss Amalgamated, had...

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