Man at the Top

• Director: Mike Vardy
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• Genre: Drama
• Themes: Work Ethics
• Main Cast: Nell Brennan, Danny Sewell
• Release Year: 1973
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 87 minutes

Plot

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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

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

Credit

Don Picton - Art Director, Mike Vardy - Director, Chris Barnes - Editor, Roy Budd - Composer (Music Score), Brian Probyn - Cinematographer, Peter Charlesworth - Producer, Jock Jacobsen - Producer, John Junkin - Screenwriter, Hugh Whitemore - Screenwriter

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