Jack ClaytonCast
Laurence Harvey 
Simone Signoret Heather Sears Donald Wolfit Donald Houston Hermione Baddeley
Credits
Written by: Neil Paterson
Plot
A young, ambitious working-class man in an industrial town in the North of England, determined to rise in class, has an affair with an older married woman and also pursues a rich girl, in a pioneering British New Wave drama.
Sinekatalog’s take
A pioneering and hard-hitting British New Wave drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (8,379 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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