The Stars Look Down
FROM THE PEN OF "THE CITADEL'S" BOLD AUTHOR!
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
- 6.4
- 1940
- Released
- 1h 50m
Michael Redgrave
Davey Fenwick
Margaret Lockwood
Jenny Sunley
Emlyn Williams
Joe Gowlan
Nancy Price
Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother
Allan Jeayes
Richard Barras - the mine owner
Edward Rigby
Robert Fenwick - Davey's father
Desmond Tester
Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother
David Markham
Arthur Barras - Barras' son
Cecil Parker
Stanley Millington
Linden Travers
Mrs. Laura Millington
Milton Rosmer
Harry Nugent, MP
George Carney
Slogger Gowlan
Ivor Barnard
Wept
Olga Lindo
Mrs. Sunley
Aubrey Mallalieu
Hudspeth
Kynaston Reeves
Strother
Clive Baxter
Pat Reedy
James Harcourt
Will
Frederick Burtwell
Union OfficialDorothy Hamilton
Mrs. Reedy
Frank Atkinson
Miner
David Horne
Mr. Wilkins
Edmund Willard
Mr. RamageBen Williams
Harry BraceScott Harrold
Headmaster Strother
Lionel Barrymore
Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice)
Howard Douglas
Miner at Rescue
Cameron Hall
Cinema Commissionaire
Bryan Herbert
Man Outside Football GroundVincent Holman
1st Arresting PolicemanRoddy Hughes
Union Committee MemberMike Johnson
Looting Miner
Vi Kaley
Old Woman at LootingLaurence Kitchin
Dickie - Butcher's BoyCharles Rolfe
2nd Arresting PolicemanD.J. Williams
Union Committee ChairmanReleased
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- #trade union
- #miner
- #social commentary
- #labor union
Reviews
Michael Redgrave is the local boy done good, when he wins a scholarship to go to university to train to be a teacher. Unfortunately, he has fallen in love with the rather fickle "Jenny" (Margaret Lockwood) who has a bit of a venal streak. Curtailing his studies, he returns to live with her in his boyhood town intent on improving the lot of his community - but he is soon disillusioned when he sees