- Actors: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann, Hugh Burden
- Directors: Roy Boulting
- Format: Black & White, Full Screen, PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: DD Home Entertainment
- Run Time: 111 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000WF33JS
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 95,604 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Michael Redgrave and Rosamund John star in the Boulting Brothers' passionate and bittersweet story of one couple's fight for social justice in Britain.
Growing up in a deprived mill town in the 1870's, young Hamer Radshaw experiences the plight of the working classes first hand. At his grandfather's knee, he learns the story of the massacre at Peterloo and in the street hears news of radicalism being preached.
Fired by a seemingly unquenchable thirst to end poverty and injustice, and empowered with fiery oratory skills, Radshaw succeeds in becoming one of the first elected Labour MPs (Member of Parliament). His wife Ann stands with him shoulder to shoulder in his political career - until a tragedy during a Welsh miner's strike starts to weaken Radshaw's political convictions.
As he becomes more and more part of the Establishment he once fought so vigorously against, the issue of Women's Suffrage threatens to tear apart the once inseparable couple when Ann's own campaigning threatens Radshaw's growing social reputation . . .
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.
CAST & CREW INCLUDES
Michael Redgrave as Hamer Radshaw=Rosamund John as Ann, Bernard Miles as Tom Hannaway, Carla Lehmann as Lady Lettice, Hugh Burden as Arnold Ryerson, Marjorie Fielding as Aunt Lizzie, Seymour Hicks as Old Buck, Anthony Wager as The Boy Hamer, Brian Weske as The Boy Ryerson, Jean Shepeard as Mrs. Radshaw, Guy Verney as Grandpa, Percy Walsh as Suddaby, David Tomlinson as Lord Liskeard, Charles Wood as Dai, Milton Rosmer as Magistrate, Wylie Watson as Pendleton, Gerald Fox as The Boy Hannaway, Ronald Adam as Radshaws' doctor, Honor Blackman as Emma
Campbell, Cotts as Meeting Chairman, Maurice Denham as Prison doctor #2, Kenneth Griffith as Wartime miners representative, Roddy Hughes as Wartime miners spokesman, Vi Kaley as Old Woman In Election Crowd, Laurence Kitchin as Radshaws' secretary, Gerald Sim as Reporter, Harry Terry as Man In Election Crowd, Iris Vandeleur as Woman who opens front door, H Victor Weske as Wartime Miners Representative, Ben Williams as Radical orator ~ et al . . . ~
Directed by Roy Boulting, Produced by John Boulting,Screenplay by Nigel Balchin, Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, Director of Photography Günther Krampf, Stanley Pavey, Original Music by John Wooldridge, Non-Original Music by Frédéric Chopin, Film Editing by Richard Best
Growing up in a deprived mill town in the 1870's, young Hamer Radshaw experiences the plight of the working classes first hand. At his grandfather's knee, he learns the story of the massacre at Peterloo and in the street hears news of radicalism being preached.
Fired by a seemingly unquenchable thirst to end poverty and injustice, and empowered with fiery oratory skills, Radshaw succeeds in becoming one of the first elected Labour MPs (Member of Parliament). His wife Ann stands with him shoulder to shoulder in his political career - until a tragedy during a Welsh miner's strike starts to weaken Radshaw's political convictions.
As he becomes more and more part of the Establishment he once fought so vigorously against, the issue of Women's Suffrage threatens to tear apart the once inseparable couple when Ann's own campaigning threatens Radshaw's growing social reputation . . .
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.
CAST & CREW INCLUDES
Michael Redgrave as Hamer Radshaw=Rosamund John as Ann, Bernard Miles as Tom Hannaway, Carla Lehmann as Lady Lettice, Hugh Burden as Arnold Ryerson, Marjorie Fielding as Aunt Lizzie, Seymour Hicks as Old Buck, Anthony Wager as The Boy Hamer, Brian Weske as The Boy Ryerson, Jean Shepeard as Mrs. Radshaw, Guy Verney as Grandpa, Percy Walsh as Suddaby, David Tomlinson as Lord Liskeard, Charles Wood as Dai, Milton Rosmer as Magistrate, Wylie Watson as Pendleton, Gerald Fox as The Boy Hannaway, Ronald Adam as Radshaws' doctor, Honor Blackman as Emma
Campbell, Cotts as Meeting Chairman, Maurice Denham as Prison doctor #2, Kenneth Griffith as Wartime miners representative, Roddy Hughes as Wartime miners spokesman, Vi Kaley as Old Woman In Election Crowd, Laurence Kitchin as Radshaws' secretary, Gerald Sim as Reporter, Harry Terry as Man In Election Crowd, Iris Vandeleur as Woman who opens front door, H Victor Weske as Wartime Miners Representative, Ben Williams as Radical orator ~ et al . . . ~
Directed by Roy Boulting, Produced by John Boulting,Screenplay by Nigel Balchin, Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, Director of Photography Günther Krampf, Stanley Pavey, Original Music by John Wooldridge, Non-Original Music by Frédéric Chopin, Film Editing by Richard Best
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