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
Neil Griffiths (novelist) Neil Griffiths (novelist) Neil Griffiths is a British novelist, and the founder of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. He is the winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and has been shortlisted for best novel in the Costa Book Awards. Neil Griffiths was born in south London, and grew up in "various places in the South East of England". Griffiths has worked in television, and has written for BBC Radio 4. His first novel, "Betrayal in Naples", won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and "Saving Caravaggio" was shortlisted for the best novel in the Costa