Editing Patterns (film) (section)

{{Short description|1956 film by Fielder Cook}}
{{about|the 1956 film|the 1955 television play|Patterns (Kraft Television Theatre)}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Patterns
| image	         = Patterns FilmPoster.jpeg
| alt            =
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Fielder Cook]]
| screenplay     = [[Rod Serling]]
| story          = Rod Serling
| producer       = Michael Myerberg<br>[[Jed Harris]] (uncredited)<ref name="AFI">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/51951 |title=Patterns |website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]] |publisher=[[American Film Institute]] |accessdate= 2020-10-04}}</ref>
| narrator       =
| starring       = [[Van Heflin]]<br/>[[Everett Sloane]]<br/>[[Ed Begley]]<br/>[[Beatrice Straight]]<br/>[[Elizabeth Wilson]]
| cinematography = [[Boris Kaufman]]
| editing        = Dave Kummins<br/>Carl Lerner
| music          = 
| studio         = Jed Harris<br/>Michael Myerberg
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1956|3|27|New York City}}
| runtime        = 84 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         =
| gross          =
}}

'''''Patterns''''' (sometimes referred to as '''''Patterns of Power'''''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baskin |first=Ellen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJxYDwAAQBAJ |title=Enser's Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays from which Films have been Made, 1928-2001 |date=2018-04-27 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-76983-9 |location=New York, NY |language=en}}</ref>) is a 1956 American "boardroom drama" film directed by [[Fielder Cook]], and starring [[Van Heflin]], [[Everett Sloane]], [[Ed Begley]], [[Beatrice Straight]], and [[Elizabeth Wilson]]. The screenplay was adapted by [[Rod Serling]] from his 1955 [[Patterns (Kraft Television Theatre)|teleplay of the same name]], which was originally broadcast January 12, 1955, on the ''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]'' with several of the same actors (including Sloane, Begley, and Wilson), though [[Richard Kiley]] was replaced by Heflin for the film.<ref name="AFI"/>