Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film made by Romulus Films and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a sequel to Room at the Top. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by James Woolf with William Kirby as associate producer. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel Life at the Top by John Braine. The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Oswald Morris.
The film stars Laurence Harvey, once again pla...
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Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film made by Romulus Films and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a sequel to Room at the Top. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by James Woolf with William Kirby as associate producer. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel Life at the Top by John Braine. The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Oswald Morris.
The film stars Laurence Harvey, once again playing Joe Lampton, Jean Simmons and Honor Blackman, with Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit, Robert Morley, Margaret Johnston, Ambrosine Phillpotts and Allan Cuthbertson.
"Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is unhappily married and forced to work at a job handed to him on a plate by his father-in-law. T.V. presenter Norah (Honor Blackman) offers him escape which, following his wife's own infidelity, he leaps at, only for things to come crashing down around his ears. Bureaucracy, class, office gossip and English politics all have a part to play (look out...
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