Review of Room at the Top (1958) by Anna L — 05 Jul 2011
Contrived and boring in the extreme, I found it not only difficult to hear (the audio for the first half was very mumbled) but difficult to believe too. For a scenario that would involve plenty of passion and probably aggression from those involved, everyone seemed unrealistically reserved and matter of fact throughout.
The hero is a womanising, swashbuckler of an accountant (I can't say I've met many of those myself). The direction was languid and staid, the dialogue mostly artless, the acting hardly stunning.
Somewhere in there, there is a vague, dubious, trite "be careful what you wish for" moral to the story which only becomes apparent towards the end, but by then, the characters are so uninteresting and unappealing, one finds it hard to care anyway.
Apart from a few brief appearances from some old British cars, there is very little to recommend it.
This review of Room at the Top (1958) was written by Anna L on 05 Jul 2011.
Room at the Top has generally received very positive reviews.
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