Man at the Top (film)

Man at the Top
Directed by Mike Vardy
Produced by Peter Charlesworth
Jock Jacobsen
Written by John Junkin
Hugh Whitemore
Starring Kenneth Haigh
Nanette Newman
Harry Andrews
Music by Roy Budd
Cinematography Brian Probyn
Edited by Chris Barnes
Production
company
Hammer Films
Dufton Films
Distributed by Anglo-EMI
Release date
  • 1973 (1973)
Running time
 92 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Man at the Top is a 1973 British drama film directed by Mike Vardy and starring Kenneth Haigh, spun off from the television series Man at the Top which itself was inspired by the 1959 film Room at the Top and its sequel Life at the Top.

Plot

Joe Lampton is promoted to managing director of a pharmaceutical company, and becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman, who is also his father-in-law. But Joe makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide because of his involvement in a drug that left 1000 African women sterile. Joe threatens to reveal all to the press, while Lord Ackerman seeks to persuade him otherwise, by offering him promotion to Chief Executive.[1]

Cast

Production

Shooting took place from 3 March to 7 April 1973.

Reception

Box Office

The film was not a success at the box office.[2]

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said it was "too much like an episode of a TV series stretched to feature length".[3]

"Network on Air" noted the film as, "offering a grittier treatment than the 1959 film adaptation and the subsequent television series".[4]

Allmovie noted, " Nanette Newman, a busy doe-eyed ingenue of the 1960s, is quietly effective as the middle-aged Mrs. Lampton."[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Man at the Top | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  2. ↑ Tom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio, Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography, McFarland, 1996 p369
  3. ↑ MAN AT THE TOP Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 40, Iss. 468, (Jan 1, 1973): 208.
  4. ↑ "> Man at the Top". Network ON AIR. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  5. ↑ "Man at the Top (1973) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-03-23.


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