# Life at the Top (1965)

> A socially ambitious mill-town outsider confronts the emptiness of inherited status when career control and marital betrayal threaten to send him south alone.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/77829

## Facts

- Runtime: 117 min
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Ted Kotcheff
- Cast: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit, Robert Morley, Margaret Johnston, Ambrosine Phillpotts
- TMDB rating: 5.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059389/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Mood: cynical, melancholic, tense, classic cinema night, British cinema retrospective

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