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Fame Is the Spur (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
111 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1947 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Roy Boulting

Written By:
Howard Spring
Nigel Balchin

Actors:
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

Synopsis:

Michael Redgrave and Rosamund John star in this passionate and bittersweet story of one couple's fight for social justice in Britain. Growing up in a deprived North of England mill town in the 1870's, young Hamer Radshaw (Michael Redgrave) experiences the suffering of the working classes first hand. During these early years Hamer learns the story of the 1819 massacre at Peterloo and begins his involvement in the new wave of radicalism sweeping the North. Radshaw succeeds in becoming one of the first MP s for the newly formed Labour party. His wife Ann (Rosamund John) stands by her man in the early stages of his fledgling political career - until a tragedy during a miner's strike begins to weaken Radshaw's political convictions. As he becomes part of the Establishment he once fought so hard against, the issue of Women's Suffrage threatens to their relationship apart when Ann s own campaigning threatens Radshaw's growing reputation amongst the political class. Allegedly based on the life of Ramsay MacDonald, `Fame is the Spur' remains one of the Boulting Brothers' finest dramatic works and a major achievement in British cinema.

Hamer Radshaw rises from a Manchester slum to an important post in the British Cabinet but, along the way, his strong socialist beliefs undergo modifications to the extent that, while maintaining them in principle, he diametrically opposes them in practice. His 'spur' for prosperity and social status causes him to sacrifice his ideals and friends, including allowing his wife, a fighter for women's rights, to be jailed.

A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 18 April, 2015.

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