Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire Donald Wolfit. Harvey resents Wolfit's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, Heather Sears. Meanwhile he has an affair with Frenchwoman Simone Signoret. Though .. Read more
| Starring | Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears |
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| Director | Jack Clayton |
| Genres | Drama |
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Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire Donald Wolfit. Harvey resents Wolfit's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, Heather Sears. Meanwhile he has an affair with Frenchwoman Simone Signoret. Though he regards Signoret as a mere self-gratifying conquest, she takes their romance seriously enough to kill herself when Harvey impregnates Field. Only as he leaves the chapel after marrying the millionaire's daughter does Harvey that his smart marriage, coupled with the guarantee of a fabulous business career, has been attained at the cost of his soul. Based on the novel by John Braine, Room at the Top was one of the most successful films of the British angry-young-man school; it later spawned two sequels, as well as a weekly TV series.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears |
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| Director | Jack Clayton |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 52 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1959 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 18 Sep 2009 To Rent: DVD: To be confirmed |
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Claimed as the first British film to take sex seriously, and the first to show the industrial north as it really was, this melodrama actually cheats on both counts but scene for scene is vivid and entertaining despite a weak central performance.
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Stellar Performances+Intelligent Script=must see
Room At the Top has its place in British film history as the first film to treat sex sensuously, even from a woman's perspective! Something quite daring in... read more »
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DO Watch
A very engaging film. Had a very strong atmosphere. I think the actors played their parts pretty well and convincingly, despite some other reviews. Would ... read more »
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British Fifties Landmark
One of the great 'it's grim up north' films of the late fifties. The whole thing is convincing except the performance of Laurence Harvey, who seems ... read more »
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YORKSHIRE LIFE
ROOM AT THE TOP was filmed in Halifax yorkshire in 1958. The thespieans theatre club is a real place,and life is as depicted in the film .I was there at the ... read more »
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