Room at the Top (1959 film)

Room at the Top
Original British 1959 quad size film poster
Directed byJack Clayton
Screenplay byNeil Paterson
Based onRoom at the Top
by John Braine
Produced byJohn Woolf
James Woolf
Starring
CinematographyFreddie Francis
Edited byRalph Kemplen
Music byMario Nascimbene
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Lion Films
Release date
  • 22 January 1959 (1959-01-22)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£280,000[1] or £231,387[2][3]
Box office$2,400,000 (US)[4]

Room at the Top is a 1959 British drama film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John Braine. It was adapted by Neil Paterson (with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler), directed by Jack Clayton (his feature-length debut), and produced by John and James Woolf. The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, and Hermione Baddeley.

The film was widely lauded, and it was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning two: Best Actress (Signoret) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Paterson). Its other nominations at the 32nd Academy Awards were for Best Picture, Best Director (Clayton), Best Actor (Harvey), and Best Supporting Actress (Baddeley).[5] Baddeley's performance, consisting of 2 minutes and 19 seconds of screen time, is the shortest ever to be nominated for an acting Oscar.[6]

  1. ^ Alexander Walker (1974). Hollywood, England. Stein and Day. p. 50.
  2. ^ Sarah Street (2014) Film Finances and the British New Wave, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34:1, 23-42 p26, DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2014.879000
  3. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 359
  4. ^ "M-G-M CASHING IN ON OSCAR VICTORY: ' Ben-Hur' Gross Expected to Reach 7 Million by Week's End -- 'Spartacus' Booked". The New York Times. 7 April 1960. p. 44.
  5. ^ "Academy Awards Database: Room at the Top". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 8 October 2016.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Screen Time Central: Shortest Performances". screentimecentral.com. Retrieved 24 July 2019.

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