Life at the Top (film) Life at the Top (film) Life at the Top is a 1965 drama film, a production of Romulus Films released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was by Mordecai Richler, based on the novel "Life at the Top" by John Braine, and is a sequel to the film "Room at the Top" (1959). It was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by James Woolf with William Kirby as associate producer. The music score was by Richard Addinsell and the cinematography by Oswald Morris. The film's art director Edward Marshall received a 1966 BAFTA Award nomination. The film stars Laurence Harvey, once
Locked-room mystery mysteries, starting in 1949 and continuing to his death in 1995. A number have been translated into English. John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson, is probably the crime fiction writer most closely associated with locked room and impossible crime puzzles, which feature in most of his dozens of mystery novels. His 1935 novel "The Hollow Man" (US title: "The Three Coffins") was in 1981 voted the best locked-room mystery novel of all time by 17 authors and reviewers, although Carr himself names Gaston Leroux's "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" (1907-1908) as his favorite. (Leroux's novel was