
So it’s perhapsĪpt that the elegantly draped suits Peck wears in the movie (not all of them grey, incidentally) reflect a man of Ruminations on his earlier life as a World War II army officer reveal deeds both heroic and less so (including theĪccidental killing of his best friend), as well as a torrid romance with Italian girl Marisa Pavan. The life of Tom Rath, viewers of the film quickly find out, was once vastly more colourful.

Starring Gregory Peck is based, represents the stale hypocrisy of the upstate-dwelling, Madison Avenue-commutingĭullard: an emblem of those whose ambitions go no further than sustaining a quotidian suburban living through

The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, the 1955 novel by Sloan Wilson on which the 1956 movie adaptation For those of a rakish disposition, it’s chillingly ironic that the soft-woven two-piece referred to in the title of
