Room at the Top (1959 film) office in 1959 after "Carry On Nurse" and "Inn of the Sixth Happiness". Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Win Nomination Win Nomination Room at the Top (1959 film) Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine. The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler. It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by John and James Woolf. The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston and Hermione Baddeley. "Room at the Top" was widely lauded, and was nominated for
Room at the Top (1959 film) shop and the outside of the amateur dramatics theatre. Greystones, a large mansion in the Savile Park area of Halifax, was used for location filming of the outside scenes of the Brown family mansion; Halifax railway station doubled as Warnley Station in the film, and Halifax Town Hall was used for the Warnley Town Hall filming. "Room at the Top" was followed by a sequel in 1965 called "Life at the Top". The film was critically acclaimed and marked the beginning of Jack Clayton's career as an important director. It became the third most popular film at the British box