Room at the Top is a 1959 English-language Drama Romance movie directed by Jack Clayton and produced by John Woolf and James Woolf under the banner of Romulus Films. The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with ing both women. Written by Dale O'Connor. Room at the top stars Laurence Harvey in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Hermione Baddeley, Donald Houston and Allan Cuthbertson. The screenplay is written by Neil Paterson and Mordecai Richler which is inspired from Room at the Top by John Braine. The music was composed by Mario Nascimbene. Cinematography was done by Freddie Francis and editing by Ralph Kemplen. The motion picture has a running time of 115 minutes. It was released on 22nd January 1959 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Room at the Top was made on a budget of £0 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $2 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by British Lion Films.