Movielogr
The Stars Look Down (1940)
Directed by Carol Reed
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 110 minutes
Actors
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 | Scott Harrold | Lionel Barrymore | Howard Douglas | Cameron Hall | Bryan Herbert | Vincent Holman | Roddy Hughes | Mike Johnson | Vi Kaley | Laurence Kitchin | Charles Rolfe | D.J. Williams