Fame Is the Spur (1947)

September 23, 1947 (GB) • Drama • 116m

Overview

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.

Director

Roy Boulting

Writers

Howard Spring, Nigel Balchin

Top Billed

Michael Redgrave

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Top Billed Cast

Michael Redgrave

Hamer Radshaw

Rosamund John

Ann Radshaw

Bernard Miles

Tom Hannaway

Carla Lehmann

Lady Lettice

Hugh Burden

Arnold Ryerson

Marjorie Fielding

Aunt Lizzie

Seymour Hicks

Old Buck

Tony Wager

The Boy Hamer

Brian Weske

The Boy Ryerson

Gerald Fox

The Boy Hannaway

Jean Shepeard

Mrs. Radshaw

Guy Verney

Grandpa

Percy Walsh

Suddaby

David Tomlinson

Lord Liskeard

Charles Wood

Dai

Milton Rosmer

Magistrate

Wylie Watson

Pendleton

Ronald Adam

Radshaws' Doctor (uncredited)

Honor Blackman

Emma (uncredited)

Clifford Buckton

Gamekeeper (uncredited)

Campbell Cotts

Meeting Chairman (uncredited)

Maurice Denham

Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)

Kenneth Griffith

Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)

Roddy Hughes

Wartime Miners' Spokesman (uncredited)

Vi Kaley

Old Woman in Election Crowd (uncredited)

Laurence Kitchin

Radshaws' Secretary (uncredited)

Philip Ray

Doctor (uncredited)

Gerald Sim

Reporter (uncredited)

Harry Terry

Man in Election Crowd (uncredited)

Iris Vandeleur

Woman Who Opens Front Door (uncredited)

H Victor Weske

Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)

Ben Williams

Radical Orator (uncredited)

Fred Wood

Unimpressed Welsh Miner (uncredited)

Crew

Howard Spring

Novel

Roy Boulting

Director

Nigel Balchin

Screenplay

Günther Krampf

Director of Photography

John Wooldridge

Music

Richard Best

Editor

John Boulting

Producer

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Status

Released

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