The Stars Look Down
1940 · 1 hr 50 min
Not Rated7.090%58%63%
Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) 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 (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he realizes Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam he decides to act.
Cast of The Stars Look Down
Michael RedgraveDavey Fenwick
Margaret LockwoodJenny Sunley
Emlyn WilliamsJoe Gowlan
Nancy PriceMartha Fenwick - Davey's mother
Allan JeayesRichard Barras - the mine owner
Edward RigbyRobert Fenwick - Davey's father
Desmond TesterHughie Fenwick - Davey's brother
David MarkhamArthur Barras - Barras' son
Cecil ParkerStanley Millington
Linden TraversMrs. Laura Millington
Milton RosmerHarry Nugent, MP
George CarneySlogger Gowlan
Ivor BarnardWept
Olga LindoMrs. Sunley
Aubrey MallalieuHudspeth
Kynaston ReevesStrother
Clive BaxterPat Reedy
James HarcourtWill
Frederick BurtwellUnion Official
Dorothy HamiltonMrs. Reedy
Frank AtkinsonMiner
David HorneMr. Wilkins
Edmund WillardMr. Ramage
Ben WilliamsHarry Brace
Scott HarroldHeadmaster Strother
Lionel BarrymoreNarrator (U.S. release only) (voice)
Howard DouglasMiner at Rescue
Cameron HallCinema Commissionaire
Bryan HerbertMan Outside Football Ground
Vincent Holman1st Arresting Policeman
Roddy HughesUnion Committee Member
Mike JohnsonLooting Miner
Vi KaleyOld Woman at Looting
Laurence KitchinDickie - Butcher's Boy
Charles Rolfe2nd Arresting Policeman
D.J. WilliamsUnion Committee Chairman