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Room at the Top (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Catalan ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Catalan ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
113 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1959 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jack Clayton

Written By:
John Braine
Neil Paterson

Actors:
Simone Signoret ..... Alice Aisgill
Laurence Harvey ..... Joe Lampton
Heather Sears ..... Susan Brown
Donald Wolfit ..... Mr. Brown
Donald Houston ..... Charles Soames
Hermione Baddeley ..... Elspeth
Allan Cuthbertson ..... George Aisgill
Raymond Huntley ..... Mr. Hoylake
John Westbrook ..... Jack Wales
Ambrosine Phillpotts ..... Mrs. Brown
Richard Pasco ..... Teddy
Beatrice Varley ..... Aunt
Delena Kidd ..... Eva
Ian Hendry ..... Cyril
April Olrich ..... Mavis

Synopsis:

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.

In his relentless pursuit of rising up in class stature, a working-class young man in Northern England seduces a wealthy industrialist's daughter--whom he does not love--in order to marry into her wealth, but what he leaves behind is the woman whom he really loves. Subsequently, he must pay the price for his ruthless ambition.

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. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 September, 2008.

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