Room at the Top (1959)
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.
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.