The Stars Look Down (1940)

Drama

The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.

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miner trade union social commentary

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Runtime: 110 mins Rating: 6.5

Cast

Michael Redgrave

Davey Fenwick

Margaret Lockwood

Jenny Sunley

Cecil Parker

Gr/Cpt Bascombe

Linden Travers

Mrs. Laura Millington

Lionel Barrymore

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

David Markham

Arthur Barras - Barras' son

Edward Rigby

Robert Fenwick - Davey's father

Milton Rosmer

Harry Nugent, MP

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