Room at the Top
A savage story of lust and ambition
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 14, 2020
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey & Heather Sears | |
| Performer: | Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Hermione Baddeley, Allan Cuthbertson, Raymond Huntley, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Richard Pasco, Beatrice Varley, Ian Hendry, April Olrich, Mary Peach & Anthony Newlands | |
| Directed by | Jack Clayton | |
| Edited by | Ralph Kemplen | |
| Screenplay by | Neil Paterson | |
| Composition by | Mario Nascimbene | |
| Art Direction by | Ralph Brinton | |
| Produced by | James Woolf & John Woolf | |
| Director of Photography: | Freddie Francis |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Actress: Simone Signoret
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Neil Paterson
Cannes 1959 -
Best Actress: Simone Signoret
Entertainment Reviews:
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3 stars out of 5 -- [T]he political aspects of Neil Paterson's Oscar-winning script still cut as deeply as Freddie Francis' gritty vistas and Simone Signoret's superb display...
Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- Harvey's screen persona makes him ideal for Joe, but it is Signoret that steals the film, giving an Oscar-winning performance as his lover, Alice Aisgill.
Total Film
Rating: A --
A seminal work that introduced the new British social realism tradition, this superbly acted film is an uncompromising indictment of the British class system; it launched the career of Jack Clayton, in his feature debut, as a new significant voice
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Francis and Clayton swing and glide their furtive camera through exquisitely blocked scenes in which characters are handsomely planted across multiple planes like a topiary.
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Screen Slate
Room at the Top, a British production banned in Saskatchewan, treated sex and several other universal human relationships with a power and honesty far removed from the sleazy hypocrisy of the gimmick-shows.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
One of the most important films in the history of British cinema.
Film Threat
Rating: B- --
Time has rained on its parade and it seems less daring when viewed today.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
This deeply moving adaptation of John Blaine's novel tells the story of an overly ambitious man who sacrifices true love to marry the boss's daughter. Sequels: "Life at the Top" and "Man at the Top." Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Laurence Harvey. Academy Awards: Best Actress--Simone Signoret, Best (Adapted) Screenplay--Wendell Mayes.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 45,864
- UPC: 738329233792
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