The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

• Gregory Peck: Tom Rath
• Jennifer Jones: Betsy Rath
• Fredric March: Ralph Hopkins
• Marisa Pavan: Maria Montagne
• Lee J. Cobb: Judge Bernstein
• Ann Harding: Helen Hopkins
• Keenan Wynn: Sgt Caesar Gardella
• Gene Lockhart: Bill Hawthorne
• Gigi Perreau: Susan Hopkins

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is an American film drama from the year 1956. He discusses the importance of responsibility and honesty in a mainly focused on short-term business success company. The screenplay is based on the published in 1955, the novel by Sloan Wilson. At the International Film Festival in Cannes, the film was in competition, but was not awarded.

Action

Tom and Betsy Rath live in the mid-50s with their children in a cheap house in Connecticut. Tom is 33 and is a Harvard graduate; He has served both in Europe ( Germany, Italy ) and in the South Pacific in World War II. Traumatic memories of that time to influence him.

His wife Betsy wants her husband makes more of his life and urges him to seek career steps. You want in a better house, a better move residential area.

Tom is applying for a PR job at a TV station and coming soon in the situation to give an opinion on the planned speech by the chairman as part of a health campaign. Tom finds the design unsuitable, but wants to maneuver so as not to offend. His wife asks him to honesty, the matter was important enough.

As Tom learns of a former wartime colleagues that he made ​​a short-term, intense love relationship has a son in Italy who needs his help.

Tom decides to honesty to his boss and to his wife. His boss is initially irritated by the honest feedback, but then thankful; his wife, the confession of the former love relationship at first hardly cope. At the end, Tom and Betsy decide the child in Italy to transfer $ 100 monthly. To what extent that is consistent with Tom's career, remains unclear; in a telephone conversation with his boss Tom is committed to a regulated activity and staff to spend more time at home with the family.

Reception

The lexicon of the International film certify the film "Our first conversation on a high level ." Bosley Crowther certified in the New York Times, director and screenwriter Johnson had managed to transform the convoluted narrative style of the original in a film- grade linear structure and meet the just the right narrative pace. The actors are excellent, the film as a whole " ripe, tender and touching ".