TYPE OF BUSINESS(ES): Multi-industry conglomerate
SLOGAN: “Our fingers are in everything”
IN THE MOVIE: When a down-on-his-luck director attempts to revive his career — and the fortunes of an ailing studio — by making the first silent movie in 40 years, the scheming chairmen of Engulf & Devour will stop at nothing to thwart his plans.
BAD-CORPORATE-CITIZEN RATING, ON A SCALE OF 1 to 10: (7) The naked greed of bottom-line-driven capitalists is lampooned to great effect in Mel Brooks’ modest if underrated curiosity — based partly on the real-life takeover of Paramount Pictures by the conglomerate Gulf+Western in 1966.
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