Billed now as a Marilyn Monroe film (she's low billed - it was her seventh film, and after All About Eve - though she still makes an impression), Paddy Chayefsky's story (adapted by Lamar Trotti) tells of independent printer (Monty Wooley) and his battle to save from redundancy by impersonating the head of the corporation. Complications ensue, especially with boss's wife Constance Bennett.
With David Wayne and Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter and Allyn Joslyn (who kept sounding like Richard Dreyfuss), and featuring a young Russ Tamblyn. Shot by Joe MacDonald and scored by Cyril Mockridge, for Fox.
Well-meaning film messages 'value the old' - what were employment laws like for 65s then?
Film is OK and quite pleasing, like a cheese and tomato sandwich in white bread.
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