available on dvd
RELEASED: 1973
Starring: Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews
Joe Lampton (Haigh) worked his way out of working class mediocrity and into an enviable position of power, wealth and influence. After becoming managing director of a powerful pharmaceutical company he discovers professional negligence that resulted in loss of life. When he confronts the chief executive of the company he realises the full extent of the company’s complicity and is torn between self-preservation and self-respect.
