Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Room At The Top (1959)

Room At The Top (1959) -- (Movie Clip) This Is A Small Town

City supervisor Hoylake (Raymond Huntley) has a piece of counsel for up-and-coming clerk Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), regarding making his way in local society, in Room at the Top, 1959, from the novel by John Braine.

Room At The Top (1959) -- (Movie Clip) You Look About 18 Sometimes

After his first night with the local theater group, ambitious Joe (Laurence Harvey) winds up at the pub in his English industrial town with Alice (Simone Signoret), a French-born part time actress, with philosophical chat about the upper-class girl he’s pursuing, in Room At The Top, 1959, from the John Braine novel.

Room At The Top (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, My Name Is Lampton

Handsome Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) arrives for his first day of work at the borough treasurer's office, in the opening sequence from director Jack Clayton's A Room at the Top, 1959, shot largely on location in West Yorkshire.

Room At The Top (1959) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Fix Just About Anything

Father-in-law Brown (Donald Wolfit) offers to set up accountant Joe (Laurence Harvey) in business in return for staying married, but leaving his daughter to herself, in Room at the Top, 1959.

Room At The Top (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Erotic Vice Among The Working Class

New-in-town Joe (Laurence Harvey) admits to aristocratic Susan (Heather Sears) that he's joined the local theater group mainly to pursue her, then gets in trouble working with Alice (Simone Signoret) in rehearsal, Anthony Newlands their director, in director Jack Clayton's Room At The Top, 1959.