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
British Museum Reading Room of Anabel Donald's 1994 novel is the ceiling of the Reading Room, where the denouement is set. Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film "Blackmail" (1929). Other movies with key scenes in the Reading Room include "Night of the Demon" (1957) and in the 2001 Japanese anime OVA "Read or Die", the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional "Special Operations Division". Probably the first work of fiction in which the British Museum Reading Room plays an