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 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)
Media.

Details.
Wiki.
Fame is the Spur is a 1947 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, David Tomlinson, Maurice Denham and Kenneth Griffith. It was written by Nigel Balchin 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. Its plot involves a British politician who rises to power, abandoning on the way his radical views for more conservative ones.
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