The Stars Look Down

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 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. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26} The Stars Look Down is a 1940 English-language Drama motion picture starring Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, Allan Jeayes, Edward Rigby and D.j. Williams. The movie is based on The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin. Grafton Films was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Isadore Goldsmith and Maurice J. Wilson. The movie is directed by Carol Reed. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. The Stars Look Down was released on 16th September 1940 and takes a screen time of 110 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The screenplay for the movie was written by A. J. Cronin and J.B. Williams. Cinematography was done by Mutz Greenbaum and Ernest Palmer and editing by Reginald Beck. The music was composed by Hans May.
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