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An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner’s daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman
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Room at the Top [1959] Part 1/12
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner’s daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman
Video Rating: 4 / 5
@gnsback Hey that’s a strange coincidence, a few hours ago I checked out French actor’s Gérard Philipe’s death in 1959 and he, too, died of a very fast acting liver cancer at age 37 or so.
Harvey’s wrong for this part – too handsome and smart.
“I thought that store that the sport’s is parked next to was Bains’e. But it’s not. It’s Carters the toy-shop. When I came back home in 1961. The store wasn’t there anymore, neither were many others. Whole buildings had been demolished!”
@itkapatanka
The opening titles were filmed in Halifax, Yorkshire, (that’s Halifax Old Station {Warnley Town}, and the shot with the Brown’s mill chimney.
Most of the rest of the film was shot in Bradford, the shots in the narrow street, are by the side of the Boy And Barrel pub just off Westgate (put jamesgate BD1 into google maps),
The end scene was filmed in Wapping, Bradford, (long gone)
Hope it helps
John
anyone know which town this was filmed in? like a different planet to look at this now…after only 50 years
Such nonsense about Sinatra and his death of cancer…Angela Lansberry is still with us and Janet Leigh died in 2004, 40 years or so after the film. …This is such crap !
@MisAnnThorpe Yes, I knew Sinatra was in Manchurian Candidate, but didn’t think he had anything to do with this one. In fact, a chief competitor of Sinatra, Matt Monro with the golden voice, developed rather early liver cancer and ended his career while Sinatra’s went on. I always wondered about that due to alleged mob connections since CIA connects to mob, and researcher-writers discuss the ‘quick cancers’ they reportedly have.
@gnsback As someone else has mentioned, the amount of smoking going on in this film, indicative of the times, could, one might well imagine, have been a contributory factor to Harvey’s death. However, discount nothing, particularly where Sinatra’s concerned!
sorry i did not see what was below!
lord the women at the counter at the start looks like wendy craig is it her?
The woman in the white blouse at the reception desk is Wendy Craig (King Royal,Butterflies,Mother Makes Three)Donald Houston who played Somes was in the TV series based on David Braine book Room At The Top which starred Keneth Haigh as Joe Lampton.
@pix042 I can’t believe you mentioned Hoylake, as a child, I visited there many, many times. Where are you from? I was born in Liverpool, Northeren England. I also visited Southport many times too. I do like this movie though. I have watched it many, many times. Last night, I watched A Kind Of Loving with Alan Bates, I loved it. I have also watched that many times too. These movies remind me of when I was dating my husband. He was 19 and I was 16. We married in 1959,
“Sounds like Terry? Yes I also write now.”
or dont change horses in mid stream. lol