With Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret. Room at the Top (1959). Press Room; Advertising; Jobs; IMDbPro. Der Weg nach oben Reviews & Ratings. Write review. Index. Loneliness and longing in this extraordinary, ageless masterpiece. The. film is dominated by the phenomenal Simone Signoret and I got dizzy. Laurence Harvey's. Jack Clayton, the director. Everythings rings true. Room At The Top (1959) Simone Signoret FilmographyThe older woman syndrome is so. Signoret's eyes is piercing as she sexily smokes her. I'm just rambling I know, my. Another extra bonus is the superb. Hermione Baddely, renamed by Noel Coward as Miss. Simone Signoret won an oscar for her portrayal of Alice, in the movie Room At The Top. In Britain's brutal class system is getting ahead worth giving up. Room at the Top (1959) All. Meanwhile he has an affair with Frenchwoman Simone Signoret. Room at the Top was one of the most successful films of the. Gooddely. A total must! This film hasn't lost any of its bitter bite since it debuted in 1. Laurence Harvey plays an ambitious young man who leaves a squalid. Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine. the room is itself. in which Simone Signoret was eventually cast. ROOM AT THE TOP (1959) starring Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit and Hermione Baddeley; screenplay by Neil Paterson, based on. England for a good job in a nicer city. He. immediately makes friends in the office and joins an amateur theater. Heather Sears) is a. He also meets an older French woman (Simone Signoret) who is. He starts an affair with the older woman while he blatantly pursues the. Her father is a coarse. Amazon.co.uk - Buy Room At The Top at a low price; free delivery on qualified orders. See reviews & details on a wide selection of Blu-ray & DVDs, both new & used. The girl has a. sort of boyfriend who constantly uses his wealthy upbringing and. Harvey "in his place." Even in post- World War II. England, the "class system" is very evident. Harvey's attempts at being. The girl is sent to France in an attempt to get her away from Harvey. Signoret. But he cannot get the. Months go by before he runs into. Of course she gets pregnant and the. Signoret won the best- actress Oscar (and just about every acting award. She is worldly and. Harvey (Oscar nominated) gives. His "angry young. Sears scores as the naïve. Hermione Baddeley (also Oscar nominated) has a great scene toward the. She plays Signoret's friend, the one who enables their. Donald Wolfit is excellent as the. Ambrosine Phillpotts is good as the mother. Donald. Houston, Raymond Huntley, Wilfrid Lawson, Beatrice Varley, and April. Olrich are all good in smaller roles. Set in an English factory town, "Room At The Top" tells the story of an. Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), the. One woman is his boss's. The. other is an older woman named Alice (Simone Signoret). The script trends in the direction of melodramatic soap opera, with. It's rather talky. And the plot is. somewhat slow. On the other hand, because of the way in which sexual. The story has a lot to say about individual sacrifice. The film's naturalistic, B& W lighting is fine. Background music is. The most significant element of the film. Both Donald Wolfit and Hermione. Baddeley give really fine performances in support roles. But, of. course, the real reason to see "Room At The Top" is to marvel at the. Simone Signoret, who won the Oscar for Best. Actress in a lead role. Although this is not my kind of film, it is very well made. It's an. important film, both for its avant- garde sexual content and for the. Simone Signoret. Simone Signoret is the epitome of sexy, womanly vulnerability, and. Lawrence Harvey is superb as the money/status seeking blue collar. Heather Sears plays an under- appreciated role. Joe Lampton. (Harvey) sees in such an "old woman" as Alice Aisgill(Signoret). Each. character is fully fleshed out, from the fellow at work and his fiancé. June, who befriend Harvey and invite him to the drama group where he. Signoret, to Heather's parents. Her mother in particular presents. Harvey. The supporting cast all offer stellar. I have seen this film 1. I am lucky. This is a superb movie. The plot is reminiscent of "An American. Tragedy." But it takes place in England, and the hero is very much an. Angry Young Man. Nevertheless, it is so beautifully written and. Laurence Harvey, whom I'm generally not crazy about, is superb as the. He sets his sights on the. Heather Sears. But something. And that something - - Simone Signoret - - is. Room At The Top." She is very. And her eyes! Her eyes, suggesting wisdom and great depths of. It seems like a simple performance and. But it is flawless. I can think of almost no. English- language movie that compares. Jack Clayton directed two masterpieces: The Innocents, Truman Capote's. Henry James's The Turn of The Screw, and Room at the Top. John Braine. The story of a young man on the make in. Britain is compelling. The black and white cinematography is. But what you will remember most is Simone Signoret's heartwrenching. Laurence Harvey. Room At The Top filmed in 1. Great Britain as veteran Laurence Harvey takes it in his mind. He's a. devilishly attractive fellow and if that's what it takes to do it, than. Not like it hasn't been done before on either side of the. Harvey's got no family so to speak, his parents were killed in his. German bomb hit their house. He's rootless now and. The similarities in character to novelist John Braine's Joe Lampton and. Theodore Dreiser's George Eastman are too obvious to overlook. However. unlike Eastman, Lampton as played by Harvey is courting two very. Boss Donald Wolfit's daughter Heather Sears. Harvey. Wolfit and his wife Ambrosine Phillpotts see what's happening. But while they're trying Harvey falls in with the unhappily married. Simone Signoret. She's married to Allan Cuthbertson who's a cheating. She's got a lot of passion left in her and even though. Harvey's ten years younger, she knows how to show him one real good. Being French she has a different moral view of things than the. Harvey does as well. He. does, but Harvey has his priorities. Room At The Top was something that still couldn't be made in America. Code, but at least it was shown here. What Makes Sammy. Run, a work by Budd Schulberg never had a big screen adaption and it. Room At The Top, Still it got great critical. Academy Awards and other nominations. Simone Signoret got one of those Oscars, for Best Actress in 1. It's. a very subtle part she undertakes, in fact she's not the main. Harvey is. Still when she's on the screen even Harvey's. Joe Lampton takes a back seat. Signoret is just. She's one of the most beautiful and. Harvey was up for Best Actor, but he and the film itself were running. Ben- Hur. He and the picture itself lost to Charlton. Heston and the noble character he created on screen. Hermione Baddely. Thelma Ritter's in All About Eve was up for. Best Supporting Actress, but she lost to Shelley Winters for The Diary. Of Anne Frank. Room At The Top with its brutally frank talk of sex mixed with ambition. Joe Lampton became Laurence Harvey's signature. Two sequels with Joe Lampton, Life At The Top and Man At the Top. Lampton played by. Kenneth Haigh as Harvey had died by then. It's an enduring classic of. British, nay the English language cinema and should not be missed. This is an excellent film. The human traits of ambition and greed are. Harvey is his usual dour self. England add to the melancholy mood of the. He is so good as the misguided protagonist that you end up supporting. For me it seemed to reflect the constant battle between. Although "Room at the Top" is set in Britain just after WWII, Americans. Joe Lambton the prototype of a yuppie – an. An orphaned working class veteran who has studied bookkeeping, Joe. In the mean time, he commences a tawdry. At almost every turn, Lambton runs afoul of the husband or lover who. For all of that, he is by turns a sympathetic character, as ably. Laurence Harvey, in spite of the fact that his lust for. Simone Signoret, has. Seeing. the world from his point of view, we can't help but feel that his upper. The first rate production is trimmed down to essentials, yet has a. It is a great example of how. One of the best of the British angry young. Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is a young English man who wants to get. He falls in love with a married, older (by 1. French woman named Alice (Simeone Signoret), but realizes he can. Susan (Heather Sears). What can he do? This was considered very strong stuff in its day. There. is swearing, frank sex talk, pre- marital sex and adultery. The film is. a bit slow, but is almost always interesting. The direction is assured. Freddie Francis was the director. The acting is. simply great, especially Signoret (who is heartbreaking) and Harvey. Harvey is handsome, sexual, evil, romantic.. He's. just incredible. Worth seeing, but be warned.. Add another review.
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