How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( How to Succeed in Business... )

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: How to Succeed in Business...
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
121 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
David Swift

Written By:
Abe Burrows
Jack Weinstock

Actors:
Robert Morse ..... J. Pierpont Finch
Michele Lee ..... Rosemary Pilkington
Rudy Vallee ..... Jasper B. Biggley
Anthony 'Scooter' Teague ..... Bud Frump
Maureen Arthur ..... Hedy LaRue
John Myhers ..... Bert O. Bratt
Carol Worthington ..... Lucille Krumholtz
Kay Reynolds ..... Miss Smith aka Smitty
Ruth Kobart ..... Miss Jones
Sammy Smith ..... Twimble - Wally Womper
Jeff DeBenning ..... Gatch
Janice Carroll ..... Brenda
Robert Q. Lewis ..... Tackaberry
Paul Hartman ..... Toynbee
Dan Tobin ..... Johnson

Synopsis:

J. Pierpont Finch, a young but bright window-cleaner buys a book - 'How To Succeed In Business' and following its advice joins the multi-national but poorly-connected 'World-Wide Wicket Company'. Starting from the mail-room he rises to Vice-President in Charge Of Advertising using sneaky and dubious ways so that the person above him gets either fired or moved to another section of the company. He also starts slowly falling in love with secretary Rosemary Pilkington. Meanwhile, the president of the WWWC, J.B. Biggley, tries to have an affair with drop-dead gorgeous bubble-head Hedy LaRue, but she becomes a weapon used both by Finch and Bud Frump, Biggley's brattish and annoying nephew who believe that he should get all the breaks and not Finch. Can Finch rise to the top or will it all go down in flames...

Twenty-seven year old New York window washer J. Pierpont Finch believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'. The book promises its reader that he can climb the corporate ladder simply and quickly. The Worldwide Wicket Corporation, the business in the office building whose windows he washes, is, according to the book, the perfect type of business. There, he meets secretary Rosemary Pilkington, who sees in Ponty, as she calls him, an unassuming man whom she believes the corporate world will eat alive. But Ponty, memorizing what the book tells him, does quickly climb the corporate ladder, but not by doing any real work. But Ponty has a few obstacles along the way, such as: Bud Frump, the nephew by marriage of the company president J.B. Biggley, Bud who sees Ponty as a rival; Hedy La Rue, a curvaceous but simple woman who has a secret or not so secret tie to someone important in the company; Mr. Ovington, an executive who Ponty can't figure out; and Ponty possibly making a fatal error by not reading far enough ahead in the book. Ponty ultimately has to decide if climbing to the top of the ladder is worth stepping on all those along the way and risk losing the love of Rosemary. In the end, telling the truth may set him free.

J. Pierrepont Finch is a viciously ambitious young man. Armed with a 'How to Succeed' self-help book and a ruthless determination to get ahead he launches a campaign to get ahead in business... by any means necessary A surprisingly boyish Robert Morse manages to pull off the tricky manoeuvre of taking a successful Broadway musical and making it work on the big screen. Big musical numbers, superbly of art direction and a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek style make this a lost classic of the era.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 22 October, 2012.

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