Life at the Top (film)

Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film, a production of Romulus Films released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel Life at the Top by John Braine, and is a sequel to the film Room at the Top 1959. It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by James Woolf with William Kirby as associate producer. The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. The films art director Edward Marshall received a 1966 BAFTA Award nomination.

In Room at the Top Joe Lamptons escape from his workingclass background through his seduction of, and marriage to, the daughter of a wealthy mill owner had been portrayed.Ten years on Joe is living the dream of the successful young executive, complete with luxurious suburban house, white Jaguar, and two young children. Despite this, Joe finds it hard to stand face to face with himself. ........

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