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.
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- Room at the top
- 15
- Cast
- Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Ambrosine Philpotts, Donald Houston, Raymond Huntley, John Westbrook, Allan Cuthbertson, Mary Peach
- Director
- Jack Clayton
- Producer
- John Woolf, James Woolf, Raymond Anzarut
- Writer
- John Braine, Neil Paterson
- Duration
- 01:55:00
- Release
- Thursday January 1 1959
- Genre
- Drama
- Distributor
- BFI Films
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