Watch The Stars Look Down (1940) starring Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, Allan Jeayes, Edward Rigby directed by Carol Reed Movie Review

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Like his father Davey Fenwick (Michael Redgrave - The Lady Vanishes) has worked down the mines but having won a scholarship to university in Tyneside sees it as an opportunity not to escape his working class background but get an education so that he can help them at a higher level rather than just backing his father during strikes. In Tyneside Davey comes across fellow former miner the ambitious and crooked Joe (Emlyn Williams) who having been dating Jenny (Margaret Lockwood - The Slipper and the Rose) sees her as too much like hard work. Having offloaded her on Davey he has his head turned and after they marry finds himself taking up a position as a school teacher rather than finishing his education as Jenny believes she was born not to work. But from Jenny's callous ways, the return of Joe who she still has a thing for as well as trouble at the pits Davey needs to consider what he really wants. ... Read Review


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