Room At The Top
1958
An ambitious working-class young man in a northern English town has a passionate affair with a sophisticated older married woman while pursuing his drive to climb the social ladder. Based on John Braine's novel, the film is a landmark of British kitchen-sink cinema and a sharp dissection of class, desire and compromise.
Director
- Jack Clayton
Cast
- Simone Signoret
- Laurence Harvey
- Heather Sears
- Donald Wolfit
- Donald Houston
- Hermione Baddeley
- Allan Cuthbertson
Filming Locations
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Piece Hall
The 18th-century cloth hall in Halifax was used as a location in the film, which shot extensively around Halifax to represent the fictional Yorkshire mill towns of Warnley and Dufton.