The Stars Look Down

Davey Fenwick 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 who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

Cast

Michael Redgrave

as Davey Fenwick

Margaret Lockwood

as Jenny Sunley

Emlyn Williams

as Joe Gowlan

Nancy Price

as Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother

Allan Jeayes

as Richard Barras - the mine owner

Edward Rigby

as Robert Fenwick - Davey's father

Desmond Tester

as Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother

David Markham

as Arthur Barras - Barras' son

Cecil Parker

as Stanley Millington

Linden Travers

as Mrs. Laura Millington

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Michael Redgrave is the local boy done good, when he wins a scholarship to go to university to train to be a teacher. Unfortunately, he has fallen in love with the rather fickle "Jenny" (Margaret Lockwood) who has a bit of a venal streak. Curtailing his studies, he returns to live with her in his bo...

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