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Room at the Top (1959)

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• With her Oscar win, Simone Signoret became the second French actress to win the Academy Award (Claudette Colbert was the first in 1934).
  
  
• Initially no British cinema chains wanted to touch the film as the British Board of Film Classification had given it an X certificate, then usually synonymous with exploitation fare. Eventually the ABC chain took a chance and picked it up for distribution, scoring a huge critical and commercial hit in the process.
  
  
• Vivien Leigh was initially offered the role later played by Simone Signoret.
  
  

• Before passing the film uncut the BBFC demanded, and successfully received, the alteration of the word "bitch" to "witch" and the deletion of the line "She was scalped" to the description of Alice's death in the car crash.
  
  
• First film of Ian Hendry.
  
  
• Features the first open reference to the sex act in a British film.
  
  

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