Newly recruited from a small Pennsylvania industrial town, Fred Staples (Van Heflin) enters Ramsey & Co., a big New York corporation eager to get into his new job with the corporate team headed by owner Walter Ramsey (Everett Sloane). When he meets William Briggs (Ed Begley) ostensibly his senior companion he is impressed that he and the elder man share many similar views on how to improve production. But when his boss pointedly embarasses Briggs in a meeting Staples gets a bad feeling about why hes been brought into the company. When Briggs dies from a heart attack after one of Ramseys public beat downs Staples confronts the owner about his intentions and about the future of the company.
For which company Fred Staples was recruited for?
Ramsey & Co