Room at the Top

Room at the Top

Director: Jack Clayton, James Woolf, John Woolf
Cast: Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey
, Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret
Jack Clayton
Room at the Top

Room at the Top

Director: Jack Clayton, James Woolf, John Woolf
Cast: Laurence Harvey
Laurence Harvey
, Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret
Jack Clayton

DVD (Special Edition / Subtitled)

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Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date: 01/14/2020
UPC: 0738329233792
Original Release: 1959
Rating: NR
Source: Kino Classics
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language: English
Time: 1:57:00
Sales rank: 34,894

Special Features

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Kat Ellinger; Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Laurence Harvey Joe Lampton,Joe Lampton
Simone Signoret Alice Aisgill
Heather Sears Susan Brown
Donald Wolfit Mr. Brown
Ambrosine Phillpotts Mrs. Brown
Donald Houston Charles Soames
John Westbrook Jack Wales
Allan Cuthbertson George Aisgill
Mary Peach June Samson
Hermione Baddeley Elspeth
Thelma Ruby Miss Breith
Anne Leon Janet,Actor
Wendy Craig Joan
Stephen Jack Darnley
Avril Elgar Miss Gilchrist,Actor
Beatrice Varley Aunt
Miriam Karlin Gertrude
Richard Pasco Teddy
April Olrich Mavis
Everley Gregg Mayoress
Delena Kidd Eva
Ian Hendry Cyril
Basil Dignam Priest
Paul Whitsun-Jones Man at Bar
Wilfrid Lawson Uncle Nat,Uncle Nat
Doreen Dawn High-stepping Girl
Harry Moore Actor
Joan Leake Actor
Honoria Burke Actor,Actor
Allan Bracewell Actor
Brian Worth Actor
Ann Gunning Actor
Mandy Priestly Actor
Bob Palmer Actor,Actor
Bill Morgan Actor
Eric Louro Actor
Pamela Manson Actor
Ruth Kettlewell Thespians member
Derek Benfield Actor
Isla Cameron Actor
Sandra Thompson Actor
Kendrick Owen Actor
Bonita Bridgeman Actor
Kathleen Fox Actor
Angela Culbert Actor
Katherine Page Actor
Kenneth Waller Actor
Anthony Newlands Actor
Andrew Irvine Actor
Derren Nesbitt Actor
May Hallatt Actor
Sheila Raynor Actor
Gilda Emmanuelli Actor
Jane Eccles Actor
Denis Linford Actor
Michael Atkinson Actor
Julian Somers Actor
Richard Caldicott Actor
Pat Lanski Actor
Richard Caldicot Actor
Jack Hedley Actor
John Welsh Mayor

Technical Credits
Jack Clayton Director
James Woolf Director,Director,Producer
Neil Paterson Screenwriter
John Braine Screenwriter
Mordecai Richler Screenwriter
Alastair McIntyre Sound Effects
Peter Handford Sound/Sound Designer
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