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Room at the Top (1959)

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis:

An ambitious working class boy works his way to the top, sacrificing his personal happiness and the woman he loves on the way.

Review:

A groundbreaker for its treatment of sexual matters, which are at least addressed, and for its choice of the industrial North as a setting. It just prefigured the wave of angry young men films which characterized the best of British cinema in the Sixties. In its own right a chilling fable of ambition with an almost Faustian pay-off, and as such more pessimistic than the numerous versions of that tale.

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis:

An ambitious working class boy works his way to the top, sacrificing his personal happiness and the woman he loves on the way.

Review:

A groundbreaker for its treatment of sexual matters, which are at least addressed, and for its choice of the industrial North as a setting. It just prefigured the wave of angry young men films which characterized the best of British cinema in the Sixties. In its own right a chilling fable of ambition with an almost Faustian pay-off, and as such more pessimistic than the numerous versions of that tale.


Country: GB
Technical: bw 117m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis:

An ambitious working class boy works his way to the top, sacrificing his personal happiness and the woman he loves on the way.

Review:

A groundbreaker for its treatment of sexual matters, which are at least addressed, and for its choice of the industrial North as a setting. It just prefigured the wave of angry young men films which characterized the best of British cinema in the Sixties. In its own right a chilling fable of ambition with an almost Faustian pay-off, and as such more pessimistic than the numerous versions of that tale.

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