All The Way Up - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

All The Way Up. Fred Midway (Warren Mitchell). Copyright: Granada Productions

Genre

Film

Released

1970

Stars

Warren Mitchell, Elaine Taylor, Vanessa Howard, Adrienne Posta, Richard Briers, Bill Fraser, Pat Heywood, Kenneth Cranham and more

Writers

David Turner and Philip Mackie

Director

James MacTaggart

Producer

Philip Mackie

Company

Adapted from David Turner's play, Semi-Detached, All The Way Up focuses on the lower-class Midway family and its scheming to climb the social ladder.

After months of anonymous letter-writing to his bosses, Fred Midway has succeeded in his attempts to have his immediate superior at wholesome firm Starlight Assurance sacked, and to move up the corporate tree himself accordingly.

Naturally, he's not about to let his hard-fought ladder-climbing go to ruin, despite the actions of his three children: Avril, who is equally keen for her husband, Nigel, to climb the ladder at his firm; Tom, whose girlfriend is in the club; and Eileen, who is having an affair with a married man!

Fred is not about to let such dalliances show him up in front of his bosses - or the neighbours - however. This scheming social climber has plenty of plans left up his sleeve!

Additional details

Tagline

He stooped so low to get so high

UK certificate

A

Duration

97 minutes

Distributors

Anglo-EMI

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

Music composed by Howard Blake. Theme tune All The Way Up performed by The Scaffold.

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