"FROM THE PEN OF "THE CITADEL'S" BOLD AUTHOR!" 22 January 1940 Drama 110 mins
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.
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Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick
Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley
Emlyn Williams as Joe Gowlan
Nancy Price as Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother
Allan Jeayes as Richard Barras - the mine owner
Edward Rigby as Robert Fenwick - Davey's father
Desmond Tester as Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother
David Markham as Arthur Barras - Barras' son
Cecil Parker as Stanley Millington
Linden Travers as Mrs. Laura Millington
Milton Rosmer as Harry Nugent, MP
George Carney as Slogger Gowlan
Ivor Barnard as Wept
Olga Lindo as Mrs. Sunley
Aubrey Mallalieu as Hudspeth
Kynaston Reeves as Strother
Hans May Original Music Composer
Mutz Greenbaum Director of Photography
A.J. Cronin Novel
Carol Reed Director
A.J. Cronin Adaptation
Isadore Goldsmith Producer
J.B. Williams Screenplay
United Kingdom 22 January 1940
Sweden 16 September 1940
United States 23 July 1941
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The Stars Look Down is a British film from 1940 based on A. J. Cronins 1935 novel of the same name about injustices in a mining community in North East ...
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 ...
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