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- BFI identifier43371
- Date1958 (Copyright)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisKitchen sink. The story of a working class young man, Joe Lampton, whose ambition to become the top man in his firm dominates his life. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- Credits
- CastSimone Signoret (Alice Aisgill)
Laurence Harvey (Joe Lampton)
Heather Sears (Susan Brown)
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Title
Room at the Top (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/6E4E-ED89-50C5-8FB4-0818-HCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
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view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on the novel by Jack Braine - SCR-15330
Room at the Top - Papers relating to the making of the film Room at the Top (GB, 1958). Directed by Jack Clayton; Produced by John Woolf and James Woolf; Screenplay by Neil Pasterson based on the novel by John Braine. Cast included Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears and Donald Wolfit. [Story of working class Joe Lampton, whose ambition to become top man at his firm dominates his life] - JCL-7
Scripts and Story Development - Papers relating to the script and story development of the film Room at the Top (GB, 1958) - JCL-7-1
Shooting Script - Jack Clayton's own shooting script [No.13] heavily annotated with many handwritten changes to dialogue, partial page paste-ins. Reverse of many pages contain Jack Clayton's brief notes on shooting the scene and dialogue ideas. 19 May 1958. - JCL-7-1-1
Top Release Script - Post production release script for Room at the Top. December 1958 - JCL-7-1-2
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Work - 43371 - 1958 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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