Peck’s understated two-button, smoke-grey Gray Flannel Suit became an internationally recognised symbol of white-collar wage slavery. Peck (centre) played an angst-ridden commuter in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) © John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images Or, as the New York Times put it in its review, “the complex accumulations of little pressures, crises and concerns that creep up on an average fellow trying to get along in this geared-up world”. Today, we could be forgiven for thinking that we have only recently started to be open about such issues as PTSD, work-life balance, mental health and the perils of materialism, but these were the exact issues treated by Nunnally Johnson’s film, in which Peck’s protagonist wrestles with the existential anguish of commuting from Connecticut to Manhattan. In 1956, Gregory Peck starred in the film adaptation of the bestselling novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
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