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Room at the Top is a 1959 British drama film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John Braine. It was adapted by Neil Paterson (with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler), directed by Jack Clayton (his feature-length debut), and produced by John and James Woolf.
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman. The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night, he joins a theatrical group.
An ambitious young man from a poor family, gets a job in a mill town in Northern England. He woos the daughter of the richest man in town, but he also falls in love with a married woman with whom...
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- Laurence Harvey
- Jack Clayton
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Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about an ambitious young working-class man who juggles sexual relationships with two middle-class women in a northern town in post-war England.
- John Braine
- 1957
Room at the Top stars Laurence Harvey as an ambitious working class man who moves from a small, provincial factory town to the city of Warnley in Yorkshire, a bleak industrial center in the North. Joe Lampton takes a low-paying job as a government clerk, but when he spots a beautiful young woman in an expensive sports car, he is determined to ...
- Jack Clayton
- Laurence Harvey
Nov 7, 2019 · The 25-year-old ambitious Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) wants to go up: As a small employee of the tax office in the small town of Warnley in the north of England, he has realized that...
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ROOM AT THE TOP is a fine slice of 1950s social realism and by far the best adaptation of the famous novel. It features Laurence Harvey in one of his most famous turns as a brash young accountant who falls in love with two women at the same time.
