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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.
Room at the Top: Directed by Jack Clayton. With Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit. An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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.
Room at the Top. 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...
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Overview. An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman. Jack Clayton. Director. John Braine. Novel. Neil Paterson. Screenplay. Mordecai Richler. Writer.
Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears. Running time. 117 minutes. This drama of social mobility in a northern factory town proved a landmark British film thanks to director Jack Clayton’s mature treatment of sexuality and class.
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Room at the Top was adapted from John Braine’s first novel, about an ambitious young man in a local government office in a large and bleak northern town who makes a set for a wealthy industrialist’s daughter, and - when thwarted - turns to an older married woman.
