The Stars Look Down

1940 PG-13 1h 50m

6.6 / 10 27

RATING

6.6/10

YOUR RATING

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.

Director Carol Reed

Writers

A.J. Cronin A.J. Cronin J.B. Williams

Stars

Michael Redgrave Margaret Lockwood Emlyn Williams

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

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David Markham

Arthur Barras - Barras' son

Cecil Parker

Stanley Millington

Linden Travers

Mrs. Laura Millington

Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice)

Howard Douglas

Miner at Rescue

Cameron Hall

Cinema Commissionaire

Bryan Herbert

Man Outside Football Ground

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Vincent Holman

1st Arresting Policeman

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Roddy Hughes

Union Committee Member

Dickie - Butcher's Boy

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Charles Rolfe

2nd Arresting Policeman

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D.J. Williams

Union Committee Chairman

Drama

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Geronimo1967 23 Jun 2022

7/10

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 ...