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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
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. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law.
Life at the Top is a sequel to the 1959 drama Room at the Top, which told the back story of Lampton's crawl from the lower rungs of society by marrying Susan Brown (played in the prequel by Heather Sears).
- Ted Kotcheff, Kip Gowans
- Laurence Harvey
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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- Laurence Harvey
- Ted Kotcheff
- Drama
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Laurence Harvey is back as Joe Lampton, the man-on-the-rise protagonist who in Room had given up true love in favor of a career-boosting (and antiseptic) marriage to his boss' daughter. Ten years have passed: Lampton is a business success, but utterly bored by his dead-end marital setup.
