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The Stars Look Down

FROM THE PEN OF "THE CITADEL'S" BOLD AUTHOR!

6.5(29)19401h 50m2

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • trade union
  • miner
  • social commentary
  • labor union

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Director

Carol Reed

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR23 Jul 1941
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical22 Jan 1940
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical16 Sept 1940
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical5 Apr 1946

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The Stars Look Down was released on 22 January 1940.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/23/2022

    7/10

    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 boyhood town intent on improving the lot of his community - but he is soon disillusioned when he sees his wife still keen …

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