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.
Staring: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, Allan Jeayes, Edward Rigby, Desmond Tester, David Markham, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Milton Rosmer, George Carney, Ivor Barnard, Olga Lindo, Aubrey Mallalieu, Kynaston Reeves, Clive Baxter, James Harcourt, Frederick Burtwell, Dorothy Hamilton, Frank Atkinson, David Horne, Edmund Willard, Ben Williams, Harold Scott, Lionel Barrymore, Howard Douglas, Cameron Hall, Bryan Herbert, Vincent Holman, Roddy Hughes, Mike Johnson, Vi Kaley, Laurence Kitchin, Charles Rolfe, D.J. Williams
Runtime: 110 minutes
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