The Stars Look Down
Time Out says
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'.
Details
Release details
Duration:
110 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Carol Reed
Screenwriter:
JB Williams
Cast:
Michael Redgrave
Margaret Lockwood
Emlyn Williams
Edward Rigby
Nancy Price
Allan Jeayes
Cecil Parker
Linden Travers
Margaret Lockwood
Emlyn Williams
Edward Rigby
Nancy Price
Allan Jeayes
Cecil Parker
Linden Travers