Rotten
There are some gaps where treatment is not on par with dramatic situation.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Stars Look Down
FROM THE PEN OF "THE CITADEL'S" BOLD AUTHOR!
1940 · 1h 50m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
Carol Reed
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Carol Reed Director
- 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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
In The Stars Look Down Mr. Reed has made a film to be remembered in this or any other season.
Theodore Strauss, New York Times
Fresh
Some two decades before the Kitchen Sink cinema of the British New Wave, Carol Reed made this serious, committed film about life in a northern mining community.
Time Out
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