Man at the Top

In Hugh Whitemore's original screenplay, Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife, Alex, and daughter, Robin. The trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman's companies and he discovers that his predecessor committed suicide because of his involvement in a drug which was issued on the African market too early and, as a result, made a hundred women sterile. Joe attacks Ackerman with his knowledge of the true facts but the chairman is strangely unperturbed ...