The Stars Look Down
1940Davey 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.
Acted in
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
Clive Baxter
as Pat Reedy
James Harcourt
as Will
Frederick Burtwell
as Union Official
Dorothy Hamilton
as Mrs. Reedy
Frank Atkinson
as Miner
David Horne
as Mr. Wilkins
Edmund Willard
as Mr. Ramage
Ben Williams
as Harry Brace
Scott Harrold
as Headmaster Strother
Lionel Barrymore
as Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice)
Howard Douglas
as Miner at Rescue
Cameron Hall
as Cinema Commissionaire
Bryan Herbert
as Man Outside Football Ground
Vincent Holman
as 1st Arresting Policeman
Roddy Hughes
as Union Committee Member
Mike Johnson
as Looting Miner
Vi Kaley
as Old Woman at Looting
Laurence Kitchin
as Dickie - Butcher's Boy
Charles Rolfe
as 2nd Arresting Policeman
D.J. Williams
as Union Committee Chairman