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Bookmark this pageThe Stars Look Down (1939)
Director: Carol Reed
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From Time Out Film Guide
Some two decades before the Kitchen Sink cinema of the British New Wave, Carol Reed made this serious, committed film about life in a northern mining community, co-scripted by AJ Cronin from his own novel. The central romance, though by no means all roses, dates the picture (Redgrave, an idealistic miner's son, goes to university, and temporarily forgets his political resolve when he marries Margaret Lockwood); but the mining sequences have a degree of authenticity (above-ground sequences were shot at Workington, in Northumberland), and the film ends with a rousing call for nationalisation of the industry, to 'purge the old greeds'.Author: TCh
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- BEF said...
- Posted on Jan 20 2008 20:14 Absorbing film of its time, not spoilt by its blatant promotion of nationalisation for the coal industry. Good filming at its location, and it dramatically brings home the despairing moments following the siren indicating a pit accident.
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Cast & crew
Director: Carol Reed
Producer: Isadore Goldschmidt
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Edward Rigby, Nancy Price, Allan Jeayes, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers full cast
Duration: 110 mins
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