Room at the Top

1959
UK
1h 55min
12A

Directed by: Jack Clayton
Written by: Neil Paterson, Mordecai Richler (uncredited)
Cast: Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Hermione Baddeley

An ambitious young accountant in a bleak Yorkshire industrial town schemes to wed the naïve daughter of a millionaire industrialist. Harvey stars as ruthless anti-hero Joe Lampton, desperate to better his working-class origins and secure social status.