Fame Is the Spur (1947)

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Written by Nigel Balchin, Howard Spring

Directed by Roy Boulting

Running Time: 130 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1947

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: UK

Filmed in Black and White

Seen as a thinly veiled biography of then-Labour leader Ramsey MacDonald, Fame Is the Spur stars Michael Redgrave as Hamer Radshaw, a young boy born in to the slums of 1870s Manchester who is taught how to become a true socialist by his grandfather. But Hamer becomes a politician and, once elevated to the heights of government, is corrupted by the power that surrounds him.

Cast

Michael RedgraveHamer Radshaw
Rosamund JohnAnn Radshaw
Image for Bernard MilesBernard MilesTom Hannaway
Carla LehmannLettice/Lady Liskeard
Hugh BurdenArnold Ryerson
Marjorie FieldingLizzie Lightowler
Seymour HicksLord Lostwitheal
Tony WagerHamer as a child
Brian WeskeArnold as a child
Jean ShepherdMrs. Radshaw
Guy VerneyGrandpa
Percy WalshSuddaby
Image for David TomlinsonDavid TomlinsonLord Liskeard
Charles WoodDai
Milton RosmerMagistrate

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