Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4285 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-01-26
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 112 minutes

Synopsis
Classic film which tells the story of a man who will stop at nothing to attain his goals in life. Based on a novel by John Braine.

Customer Reviews

Signoret's film
Available again on DVD, to coincide with the film's 50th anniversary, this is a top quality movie. The acting, screenplay and black-and-white cinematography are first class, with an astonishing Oscar-winning performance by Simone Signoret, as the older, unhappily married woman who falls for social climber Laurence Harvey, with tragic consequences.
Trivia : Signoret was the first French lady to win the Best Actress Academy Award since Claudette Colbert (1934 - It Happened One Night).
Hermione Baddeley's two minute cameo is the smallest role ever to bag an Academy Award nomination (Best Supporting Actress). Room At The Top [1959]

Room at the Top - Iconic Film.
This is one of the four great films of its period, illustrating the social and cultural conditions of the time. The others are : "A KInd of Loving"; "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"; and "This Sporting Life".

Others of the same genre are : "Up the Junction" and "A Taste of Honey".

If you don't know these clasics, you have missed an experience - indeed, an education.

A superb movie, now almost forgotten.
As so many of the great British movies can be, this one seems largely forgotten.That is a shame because it depicts well life in post war Britain during the fifties.