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Room at the Top

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Room at the Top is a 1959 British drama film directed by Jack Clayton, adapted from John Braine's 1957 novel of the same name.Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) is a young working-class man on the make. A war veteran who spent three years as a POW, he has left his grim sad-sack Yorkshire hometown of Dufton, and arrived in the slightly less grim Yorkshire town of Warnley, where he has gotten a job as an accountant in local government. The intensely ambitious Joe wants more out of life, however. When he notices lovely young Susan Brown, daughter of the local factory owner, he seems equally charmed by her beauty, her upper-class refinement, and the fact that she and her family are very rich.To get into Susan's good graces, Joe joins the local amateur theatrical group that Susan is a part of. There he meets Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), a French expat stuck in a very unhappy marriage to a local businessman. Joe, while putting the full-court press on Susan in his effort to get into high society, finds himself increasingly drawn to the sensual Alice.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })English-language debut of Simone Signoret, who had been a star in France since the early 1940s. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Two of her co-stars, Laurence Harvey and Hermione Baddeley, were also nominated; at two minutes and nineteen seconds, Baddeley's is the shortest performance ever nominated in any acting category.
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 Artifact Title: Sort of. In the film there's a couple of vague references to "the Top" being the nicest part of Warnley where the rich folk live. In the film, there is a specific metaphor relating to the boarding house where Joe is staying; the top floor has the nicest rooms in the boarding house and a "room at the top" of the boarding house is a metaphor for rising to the upper class.
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 Be Careful What You Wish For: Joe set his sights on Susan as a gateway into the British upper class, a way to wealth and comfort. He gets her, and the wealth and comfort, but only after he no longer wants any of it, having fallen in love with Alice.
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