The Stars Look Down (1940)
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
Writer:
J.B. Williams
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Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick |
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Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley |
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Emlyn Williams as Joe Gowlan |
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Nancy Price as Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother |
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Allan Jeayes as Richard Barras - the mine owner |
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Edward Rigby as Robert Fenwick - Davey's father |
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Desmond Tester as Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother |
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David Markham as Arthur Barras - Barras' son |
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Cecil Parker as Stanley Millington |
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Linden Travers as Mrs. Laura Millington |
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Milton Rosmer as Harry Nugent, MP |
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George Carney as Slogger Gowlan |
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Ivor Barnard as Wept |
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Olga Lindo as Mrs. Sunley |
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Aubrey Mallalieu as Hudspeth |
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Kynaston Reeves as Strother |
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Clive Baxter as Pat Reedy |
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James Harcourt as Will |
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Frederick Burtwell as Union Official |
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Dorothy Hamilton as Mrs. Reedy |
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Frank Atkinson as Miner |
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David Horne as Mr. Wilkins |
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Edmund Willard as Mr. Ramage |
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Ben Williams as Harry Brace |
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Scott Harrold as Headmaster Strother |
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Lionel Barrymore as Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice) |
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Howard Douglas as Miner at Rescue |
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Cameron Hall as Cinema Commissionaire |
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Bryan Herbert as Man Outside Football Ground |
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Vincent Holman as 1st Arresting Policeman |
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Roddy Hughes as Union Committee Member |
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Mike Johnson as Looting Miner |
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Vi Kaley as Old Woman at Looting |
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Laurence Kitchin as Dickie - Butcher's Boy |
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Charles Rolfe as 2nd Arresting Policeman |
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D.J. Williams as Union Committee Chairman |
| Writing | A.J. Cronin | Adaptation |
| Directing | Carol Reed | Director |
| Sound | Hans May | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | J.B. Williams | Screenplay |
| Camera | Mutz Greenbaum | Director of Photography |
| Writing | A.J. Cronin | Novel |
| Production | Isadore Goldsmith | Producer |
