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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089859821929
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Vci Video
Manufacturer: Vci Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Vci Video
Release Date: November 30, 1999
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 56760
Studio: Vci Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Careful..
...you may get what you want. Almost reminded me of the Twilight Zone in places - cinematically and storywise. It's not science fiction of course, but the irony in this unsettling story has elements of that most awesome of TV shows. To have what you love or what you think you should have? That is the question!
Rating:  - Local boy makes good
Jack Clayton's remarkable 1958 film changed British cinema, and brought a new understanding of the role of sex in postwar society. Set in the years after the war, the film is primarily about the changes in the class system wrought by the Second World War and the new Atlee government: the working-class hero of the film, Joe Lampton, released from a POW camp at the war's end, works in an accounting firm and dreams of making good by marrying the pretty daughter (Heather Sears) of the richest manufacturer ... Read More
Rating: - Room at the Top
Based on John Braine's cynical novel, one of the first "angry young man" tales, Clayton's brilliant social drama is distinguished by sharp, biting dialogue and sexually explicit language unusual for its time. It's also a lacerating critique of the British class system that's lost none of its punch. Laurence Harvey's Joe makes a credible central character, but it's Signoret who holds your attention, and breaks your heart, as Alice. The gifted French actress won an Oscar for her sensitive portrayal.
Rating:  - Room at the top
What!!!! $754.98 for a DVD on Amazon? This must be a big mistake. I have seen the movie so please correct this Amazon asap!
Rating: - "What do I have but your love"
This story of a little ambitious louse played perfectly by Laurence Harvey and his decision whether or not to to marry the boss' daughter a young woman he does not love, or the much - older French woman who he clearly is more deeply connected to, is a highly convincing film. Simone Signoret is tremendous as the elderly desperate woman who asks in the key scene of the play, "What do I have but your love?"
The background is dready industrial Northern post- war England.
An emotionally powerful ... Read More
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