Man at the Top – 1973

A Hammer production in association with Durton Films presented by Nat Cohen for Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Limited Copyright MCMLXXIII Hammer Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 23662

The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional

Made at EMI/MGM Elstree Studios Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, England
Technicolor 88 mins

Storyline

Hard-nosed businessman Joe Lampton is appointed to replace an executive in a pharmaceutical company who has just committed suicide. But, as soon as he takes up his post, he begins to uncover evidence that a new drug being marketed by the company and tested n Africa is unsafe and it seems that he has been set up as a scapegoat if any scandal breaks. Lampton has to use all his guile to survive in the wild jungle of big business.

Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Additional Material	John Junkin	43	29 Jan 1930		7 Mar 2006	76	1		1
Art Director	Don Picton	57	22 Feb 1916		Nov 1981	65	15	2	17
Ast. Director	Ken Barker	55	1 Jan 1918		13 Feb 2001	83	10		10
Based on characters by	John Braine	51	13 Apr 1922		28 Oct 1986	64	1		1
Camera Operator	Chic (Rodney) Anstiss	42	1 Feb 1931		30 Jun 2011	80	12		12
Casting Director	James Liggat	53	1920		28 Sep 1981	61	29	2	31
Construction Manager	Arthur Banks						18	29	47
Continuity	Sally Ball (Jones)	28	1945		Oct 2009	64	4		4
Director	Mike Vardy						1		1
Director of Photog.	Brian Probyn BSc	52	30 Nov 1920		25 Nov 1982	61	6		6
Dubbing Mixer	Dennis Whitlock	45	1928		2008	80	13	1	14
Editor	Chris Barnes	35	1 Jan 1938		5 Jun 2009	71	21	12	33
Hairdresser	Elaine Bowerbank	28	1 Jan 1945	01.01.1945		78	2		2
Make-up	George Blackler	61	7 Mar 1912		30 Oct 1986	74	7	1	8
Music Composer	Roy Budd	26	14 Mar 1947		7 Aug 1993	46	1		1
Musical Supervisor	Philip Martell	65	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Producer	Jock Jacobsen						1		1
Producer	Peter Charlesworth						1		1
Production Manager	Ron Jackson	38	1935		1993	58	34	1	35
Production Supervisor	Roy Skeggs	39	1 Apr 1934		29 Dec 2018	84	45	1	46
Screenplay	Hugh Whitemore	37	16 Jun 1936		17 Jul 2018	82	1		1
Sound Editor	Terry Poulton	43	1930		1993	63	16	1	17
Sound Recordist	Claude Hitchcock	54	8 Nov 1918		4 Oct 2010	91	14	4	18
Wardrobe Supervisor	Laura Nightingale						35		35
Uncredited
Production Secretary	Sally Pardo	32	10 Dec 1940	10.12.1940		82		4	4

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
							Credited	Uncredited	Total
Alex	Nanette Newman	39	29 May 1934	29.05.1934		88	2		2
Black Boxer	John Conteh	22	27 Mar 1951	27.03.1951		72	1		1
Digby	John Quentin	38	1 Jan 1935	01.01.1935		88	1		1
Eileen	Margaret Heald						1		1
George Harvey	Charlie Williams	44	23 Dec 1928		2 Sep 2006	77	1		1
Joe Lampton	Kenneth Haigh	42	25 Mar 1931		4 Feb 2018	86	2		2
Joyce	Angela Bruce	22	6 May 1951	06.05.1951		71	2		2
Lord Ackerman	Harry Andrews	61	10 Nov 1911		6 Mar 1989	77	1		1
Marshall	William Lucas	48	14 Apr 1925		8 Jul 2016	91	3		3
Massey	Clive Swift	37	9 Feb 1936		1 Feb 2019	82	1		1
Mrs Harvey	Anne Cunningham	36	10 Apr 1937	10.04.1937		86	1		1
Newsreader	Tim Brinton	43	24 Dec 1929		24 Mar 2009	79	1		1
Records Clerk	Verne Morgan	72	19 Dec 1900		23 Apr 1984	83	3	1	4
Referee	George Francis						1		1
Robin	Mary Maude						1		1
Sarah Tarrant	Norma West	29	19 Nov 1943	19.11.1943		79	1		1
Taranath	Jaron Yaltan	51	4 Dec 1921		Jan 2002	80	1		1
Tarrant	Paul Williamson	44	1 Jan 1929	01.01.1929		94	1		1
Waitress	Nell Brennan	30	1 Jan 1943	01.01.1943		80	1		1
Weston	Danny Sewell	42	18 Nov 1930		18 May 2001	70	1		1
White Boxer	Patrick McCann						1		1
Wisbech	John Collin	44	18 Oct 1928		25 Feb 1987	58	2	1	3
Uncredited
Boxing Spectator	Fred Machon							3	3

Production


FILMING BEGAN	3 March 1973
UK RELEASE	16 September 1973
STUDIO	Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England

Footnotes

This is the only one of Hammer’s television spin-offs at this time not to be derived from a comedy. The character Joe Lampton had already appeared twice in the cinema, both times played by Laurence Harvey, in “Room at the Top” (1958) and “Life at the Top” (1965).

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection