All The Way Up is a 1970 British comedy film directed by James MacTaggart and starring Warren Mitchell, Pat Heywood, Kenneth Cranham, Richard Briers, Adrienne Posta and Elaine Taylor.
[8][9] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Who but the British could present a vision of universal corruption, of a world whose unique moral laws are egotism and treachery, and make a family comedy out of it?
True, if one can ignore its pernicious premises, the script has its moments of verbose wit ... and both Adrienne Posta and Kenneth Cranham (in a less subtle version of the character he created in Orton's Loot) give impeccably timed and relatively credible performances as the only couple in the film to make love for no economic motive.
"[13] Leslie Halliwell said: "Crudely farcical adaptation of a thoughtful comedy of its time; the treatment works in fits and starts but leaves one in no mood for the talkative finale.
"[9] According to historian Paul Moody the film's "eventual lack of impact at the box office, in contrast to the On the Buses series that would follow, taught Cohen a valuable lesson in what the British public would pay to see, and this was the last such ‘middle-class’ comedy that EMI would produce.