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
John Murray (novelist) John Murray (novelist) John Murray (born 1950, Cleator Moor, Cumberland) is an English writer and novelist known for writing satirical novels on a range of subjects. He read Sanskrit at University College, Oxford. In 1984 he founded the fiction magazine "Panurge", which he edited with fellow author David Almond until 1996. Panurge Publishing published Julia Darling's debut collection of short stories, "Bloodlines" in 1995. Murray's first novel, "Samarkand", was published in 1985 and in 1988 he received the Dylan Thomas Award for his collection of stories, "Pleasure". In 2002 his novel "John Dory" won a Lakeland Book of the Year