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Man at the Top (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Mike Vardy

Written By:
John Braine
John Junkin

Actors:
Kenneth Haigh ..... Joe Lampton
Nanette Newman ..... Lady Alex Ackerman
Harry Andrews ..... Lord Clive Ackerman
William Lucas ..... Marshall
Clive Swift ..... Massey
Paul Williamson ..... Tarrant
John Collin ..... Wisbech
John Quentin ..... Digby
Danny Sewell ..... Weston
Charlie Williams ..... George Harvey
Anne Cunningham ..... Mrs. Harvey
Angela Bruce ..... Joyce Harvey - hitchhiker
Margaret Heald ..... Eileen - hitchhiker
Norma West ..... Sarah Tarrant
Nell Brennan ..... Waitress
Tim Brinton ..... Newsreader
John Conteh ..... Black Boxer
Mary Maude ..... Robin Ackerman
Patrick McCann ..... White Boxer
Verne Morgan ..... Records Clerk
Jaron Yaltan ..... Taranath

Synopsis:

Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman and Harry Andrews give compelling performances in this hard-hitting 1973 film tracing the progress of Joe Lampton, the aggressively ambitious protagonist of John Braine's Room at the Top. Offering a grittier treatment than the 1959 film adaptation and the subsequent television series which sequelised Braine's classic novel, Man at the Top is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman's companies and makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide...

Man at the Top was a theatrical-film spin-off of a popular British TV series, inspired by the earlier movies Room at the Top and Life at the Top. Kenneth Haigh starred in the series as Joe Lampton, the successful but emotionally empty business executive portrayed in the earlier films by Laurence Harvey. In Man at the Top, Lampton (Haigh again) endures a crisis of conscience. He knows that his pharmaceutical firm is about to market an untested and possibly dangerous drug. He is also bound by ties of familial loyalty: His boss (Harry Andrews) happens to be his father-in-law. Nanette Newman, a busy doe-eyed ingenue of the 1960s, is quietly effective as the middle-aged Mrs. Lampton.

Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman's companies and makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide because of his involvement in a drug that had left a hundred women sterile. Joe attacks Ackerman with his knowledge of the facts, yet the chairman is strangely unperturbed...

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 01 October, 2013.