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Life at the Top is a 1965 British drama film, a production of Romulus Films released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the 1962 novel Life at the Top by John Braine, and is a sequel to the film Room at the Top (1959).
Life at the Top: Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig. In this sequel to Room at the Top (1958), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town.
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- Drama
- Ted Kotcheff
- 1966-06-28
A sequel to Room at the Top (1958), the film follows Joe Lampton, a working class social climber who marries the boss's daughter and faces challenges at work and home. He reconsiders his choices when he discovers his wife's affair and an offer of a job in London.
Life at the Top (1965) Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons - Drama. In this sequel to "Room at the Top" (1959), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's...
- 111 min
- 80.8K
- Classic Studio
Life At The Top is the third novel by the English author John Braine, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in the US by Houghton Mifflin & Co. in 1962. It continues the story of the life and difficulties of Joe Lampton, an ambitious young man of humble origins.
Life at the Top. Successful businessman Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is married to the wealthy Susan (Jean Simmons), has two children and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England....
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- Drama
A trenchant examination of Britain's notoriously intractable class system, Life at the Top shows the ways social class defines nearly every facet of Lampton's life. But the essential dilemma Lampton faces is an existential one, notes Los Angeles Times writer Philip K. Scheuer.
