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"A Savage Story of lust and ambition". In late 1940s Yorkshire, England, ambitious young man Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), who has just moved from the dreary factory town of Dufton, arrives in Warnley, to assume a secure, but poorly-paid, post in the Borough Treasurer's Department. Determined to succeed, and ignoring the warnings of a colleague, Soames (Donald Houston), he is drawn to Susan Brown (Heather Sears), daughter of the local industrial magnate, Mr. Brown (Donald Wolfit). He deals with Joe's social climbing by sending Susan abroad; Joe turns for solace to Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), an unhappily married older woman who falls in love with him.
Movie rating: 7.5 / 10 (5766)
Directed by: Neil Paterson - Jack Clayton - John Braine - Mordecai Richler
Writer credits: Neil Paterson - John Braine
Cast: Simone Signoret - Laurence Harvey - Heather Sears - Donald Wolfit - Donald Houston
AKA: Der Weg nach oben
