The Stars Look Down

1h 50m

Drama

6.4

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.

Cast

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 Official

Dorothy Hamilton

Mrs. Reedy

Frank Atkinson

Miner

David Horne

Mr. Wilkins

Edmund Willard

Mr. Ramage

Ben Williams

Harry Brace

Scott 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 Ground

Vincent Holman

1st Arresting Policeman

Roddy Hughes

Union Committee Member

Mike Johnson

Looting Miner

Vi Kaley

Old Woman at Looting

Laurence Kitchin

Dickie - Butcher's Boy

Charles Rolfe

2nd Arresting Policeman

D.J. Williams

Union Committee Chairman

Crew

Carol Reed

Director

A.J. Cronin

Adaptation, Novel

J.B. Williams

Screenplay

Mutz Greenbaum

Director of Photography

Isadore Goldsmith

Producer

Hans May

Original Music Composer