An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Acting
Signoret's Oscar-winning weariness vs. Harvey's desperate hunger.
Direction
Clayton makes Yorkshire industrial grime feel almost erotic.
Cinematography
Black-and-white shadows that reek of coal smoke and bad decisions.
Director
Jack Clayton
Laurence Harvey
Joe Lampton
Simone Signoret
Alice Aisgill
Heather Sears
Susan Brown
Donald Wolfit
Mr. Brown
Donald Houston
Charles Soames
Hermione Baddeley
Elspeth
Beatrice Varley
Aunt
Allan Cuthbertson
George Aisgill
Raymond Huntley
Mr. Hoylake
John Westbrook
Jack Wales
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Mrs. Brown
Richard Pasco
Teddy
Ian Hendry
Cyril
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This basically invented 'kitchen sink realism' and made British cinema gritty again—Beatles era, but make it miserable.
Signoret was so furious about dubbed dialogue that she learned English phonetically for her next film. Oscar in hand, petty in heart.
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