Room at the Top

Starring:Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Hermione Baddeley, Allan Cuthbertson, Raymond Huntley, John Westbrook, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Richard Pasco, Beatrice Varley, Delena Kidd, Ian Hendry, April Olrich, Mary Peach, Anthony Newlands, Avril Elgar, Thelma Ruby, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Director: Jack Clayton
Studio: Vci Video
Product Type: DVD

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Room at the Top
Room at the top
"What do I have but your love"
Where love and ambition clash
Has the ambition any limit?

Room at the Top
Starring: Simone Signoret , Laurence Harvey , Heather Sears , Donald Wolfit , and Donald Houston
Director: Jack Clayton
Manufacturer: Vci Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00002VW6M
Release Date: 1999-11-30

Customer Reviews:

Room at the Top.......2007-06-26

Based on John Braine's cynical novel, one of the first "angry young man" tales, Clayton's brilliant social drama is distinguished by sharp, biting dialogue and sexually explicit language unusual for its time. It's also a lacerating critique of the British class system that's lost none of its punch. Laurence Harvey's Joe makes a credible central character, but it's Signoret who holds your attention, and breaks your heart, as Alice. The gifted French actress won an Oscar for her sensitive portrayal.

Room at the top.......2007-06-10

What!!!! $754.98 for a DVD on Amazon? This must be a big mistake. I have seen the movie so please correct this Amazon asap!

"What do I have but your love".......2006-05-11

This story of a little ambitious louse played perfectly by Laurence Harvey and his decision whether or not to to marry the boss' daughter a young woman he does not love, or the much - older French woman who he clearly is more deeply connected to, is a highly convincing film. Simone Signoret is tremendous as the elderly desperate woman who asks in the key scene of the play, "What do I have but your love?"
The background is dready industrial Northern post- war England.
An emotionally powerful movie.

Where love and ambition clash.......2006-04-16

Laurence Harvey plays an ex-POW from a working-class background in northern England who lands a low-paying job in a government accounting firm, but who has big eyes for the top (financially and socially) - especially if he can marry into it. He begins wooing the daughter of the city's biggest tycoon; she's a vacuous snow queen (played so-so by Heather Sears), and he has little success with her at first. At the same time he falls in love with an older, experienced woman, played superbly by Simone Signoret (she deservedly won an Oscar for her portrayal). But money blinds him to his real feelings, and when Sears agrees to marry him (after she becomes pregnant), he throws over Signoret and ties the knot with Sears. Signoret commits suicide, and Harvey is left with Sears and her money, but little else (certainly not the love he felt with Signoret). There are a few heavy-handed scenes, especially those involving Sears, but for the most part the movie is engrossing and very "adult."

Has the ambition any limit?.......2006-01-07

Laurence Harvey the best role of his career with this admirable film in the most scrupulous sense of the word. From the powerful and incisive inspired pen of John Braine and a magnificent screenplay of Neil Patterson.

A man, obsessed with the success and the Machiavellian maxim: "The goal justifies the means" won 't stop at anything to reach the top of the world in the business world. He represents the legitimate descendent of Richard III.

A cult film that shines with radiant light, despite the elapsed years; the movie has inspired countless sequels, but here between you and me, this is the winner.

Who can match for instance with the towering performance of Simone Signoret who won an ultra deserved Academy Award by this sumptuous role.

A classic film in every level you analyze it.

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Room at the Top
Room at the top
"What do I have but your love"
Where love and ambition clash
Has the ambition any limit?

Room at the Top [Region 2]
Starring: Simone Signoret , Laurence Harvey , Heather Sears , Donald Wolfit , and Donald Houston
Director: Jack Clayton
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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