Fame Is the Spur (1947)
1h 56m
Running Time
September 23, 1947Release Date
Fame Is the Spur (1947)
1h 56m
Running Time
September 23, 1947Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Michael Redgrave
Hamer Radshaw
Rosamund John
Ann
Bernard Miles
Tom Hannaway
Carla Lehmann
Lady Lettice
Hugh Burden
Arnold Ryerson
Roy Boulting
Director
Marjorie Fielding
Aunt Lizzie
Seymour Hicks
Old Buck
Howard Spring
Writer
Nigel Balchin
Writer
Tony Wager
The Boy Hamer
Brian Weske
The Boy Ryerson
John Boulting
Producer
John Wooldridge
Composer
Gerald Fox
The Boy Hannaway
Günther Krampf
Cinematographer
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)
Richard Best
Editor
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Fame is the Spur is a 1947 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting. It stars Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, David Tomlinson, Maurice Denham and Kenneth Griffith. Its plot involves a British politician who rises to power, abandoning on the way his radical views for more conservative ones. It is based on the 1940 novel Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring, which was believed to be based on the career of the Labour Party politician Ramsay MacDonald.