Room at the Top (1959)

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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

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Director(s):
Jack Clayton
Writer(s):
Neil Paterson
Producer(s):
James WoolfJohn Woolf
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Awards:
  • 1958 - Room at the Top - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Film - Any Source
  • 1958 - Room at the Top - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Foreign Actress
  • 1959 - Room at the Top - Golden Globe - Best Foreign Film
  • 1959 - Room at the Top - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Foreign Film
  • 1959 - Room at the Top - National Board of Review - Best Actress

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