Fame Is the Spur (1947)
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When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to help the beleaguered workers in his area, he takes as his symbol a sword passed down to him by an ancestor who picked it up at the Battle of Peterloo in 1819, where it had been… More When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to help the beleaguered workers in his area, he takes as his symbol a sword passed down to him by an ancestor who picked it up at the Battle of Peterloo in 1819, where it had been used against workers. Beginning as an idealistic defender of the oppressed workers, he rises to power in the Parliament, where he discovers that power corrupts and he becomes the very type of politician he had originally set out to displace. Sometimes slow-moving, this is an interesting look into the reasons why the Labor and the Conservative factions are at loggerheads with each other in Great Britain. Very loosely based on labor leader Ramsay MacDonald's climb to power, the story was adapted by Howard Spring and is a combination of both fact and fiction. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
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Cast
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Michael Redgrave
as Hamer Radshaw
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Rosamund John
as Ann Radshaw
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Bernard Miles
as Tom Hanaway
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Carla Lehmann
as Lady Lettice
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Hugh Burden
as Arnold Ryerson
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Marjorie Fielding
as Aunt Lizzie
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Guy Verney
as Grandpa
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Percy Walsh
as Suddaby
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Seymour Hicks
as Old Buck
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David Tomlinson
as Lord Liskeard
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Milton Rosmer
as Magistrate
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Wylie Watson
as Pendelton
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Anthony Wager
as Boy Hamer
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Brian Weske
as Boy Ryerson
- Honor Blackman
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Jeanne Shepherd
as Mrs. Radshaw
- Gerald Sim
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Charles Wood
as Dai
