My father designed some of the most iconic movie posters of the second half of the 20th century, including “Alien,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Superman” and “Downhill Racer.” My mother wrote catchphrases for those posters, with the “Alien” catchphrase, “In space, no one can hear you scream,” being probably the most memorable. Since there is a bit of Hollywood in my blood, I’d like to offer some of the films that contain powerful leadership lessons for security professionals from that same time period for consideration: roughly from the early 1960s to the late 1990s.
For this list, forget about the obvious sources. No war movies, biopics or sports flicks. Some of the best dramatizations of leadership come from those genres, but let’s dig into the unconventional, unexpected and untrodden, presented here in chronological order. Spoilers ahead!