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== Themes ==
== Themes ==
Ambition is a fairly common theme in all movies. ''Executive Suite'' features almost as many forms of ambition as it has leading actors. These forms include the simple ambition to make money (even "easy" money), the ambition for a promotion (or the succession to a headship), and the ambition to accomplish something positive. Different kinds of ambition drive men (and women) to do different things to realize those ambitions, as this film illustrates very well.
Ambition is a fairly common theme in all movies. ''Executive Suite'' features almost as many forms of ambition as it has leading actors. These forms include the simple ambition to make money (even "easy" money), the ambition for a promotion (or the succession to a headship), and the ambition to accomplish something positive.
Another thing this film illustrates well is the consequences of idol worship. Avery Bullard is an idol, and in death he becomes an even greater idol to many of the associates he leaves behind. Sokme of those people--Don Walling, for example--must overcome their idol worship and reassess what Avery Bullard actually meant to them, if they expect to achieve their goals.
Different kinds of ambition drive men (and women) to do different things to realize those ambitions, as this film illustrates very well. As Avery Bullard's last message reaches the Tredway Tower and Erica Martin delivers it throughout the complex of offices known as Executive Suite, the news finds each of the five Vice Presidents in the middle of separate situations or pursuits. Exactly ''what'' each Vice President is doing when he gets the message is quite telling.
Another thing this film illustrates well is the consequences of hero worship. Avery Bullard is a hero, as the back-story shows: he saved the company from almost certain bankruptcy and dissolution after its founder committed suicide. In death he becomes an idol to many of the associates he leaves behind.
Some of those people--Don Walling, for example--must overcome their idol worship and reassess what Avery Bullard actually meant to them, if they expect to achieve their goals. That reassessment will include the realization that even their hero made mistakes--and those mistakes did not limit themselves to his expressed or implied preferences for a successor.
== Background and Production ==
== Background and Production ==