

The Stars Look Down(1940)
"FROM THE PEN OF "THE CITADEL'S" BOLD AUTHOR!"
Overview
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
AI Insights
Powered by GPT-5.1
AI summary is being generated.
Top Cast
Swipe or use arrows

Michael Redgrave
Davey Fenwick

Margaret Lockwood
Jenny Sunley

Emlyn Williams
Joe Gowlan

Nancy Price
Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother

Allan Jeayes
Richard Barras - the mine owner

Edward Rigby
Robert Fenwick - Davey's father

Desmond Tester
Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother
David Markham
Arthur Barras - Barras' son

Cecil Parker
Stanley Millington

Linden Travers
Mrs. Laura Millington

Milton Rosmer
Harry Nugent, MP

George Carney
Slogger Gowlan

Ivor Barnard
Wept

Olga Lindo
Mrs. Sunley

Aubrey Mallalieu
Hudspeth

Kynaston Reeves
Strother

Clive Baxter
Pat Reedy

James Harcourt
Will

Frederick Burtwell
Union Official
Dorothy Hamilton
Mrs. Reedy

Frank Atkinson
Miner

David Horne
Mr. Wilkins

Edmund Willard
Mr. Ramage
Ben Williams
Harry Brace
Scott Harrold
Headmaster Strother

Lionel Barrymore
Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice)

Howard Douglas
Miner at Rescue

Cameron Hall
Cinema Commissionaire

Bryan Herbert
Man Outside Football Ground
Vincent Holman
1st Arresting Policeman
Roddy Hughes
Union Committee Member
Mike Johnson
Looting Miner

Vi Kaley
Old Woman at Looting
Laurence Kitchin
Dickie - Butcher's Boy
Charles Rolfe
2nd Arresting Policeman
D.J. Williams
Union Committee Chairman
Click to rate
Featured Reviews
You Might Also Like

Cheerful Mimiko has a wonderfully strange family—a Panda for her Papa; and his son Panny, calls her Mom! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won't get into trouble. Despite his efforts to behave, Panny causes trouble in school and now the school is after Panny! Then, Panny makes a new friend, Tiny, a baby tiger who's wandered off from the circus.
Panda! Go Panda!

Relive the magic of Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre's captivating performance at Bangkok Youth Center in 1988
Bird Thongchai Concert #1/1988 Kaolao ThongChai (Mai-Ngok)
The best women's wrestling competition of all time...and if you think it's fake you're in for a big surprise See LEGENDARY Mixed Martial Arts fighters coach their teams to victory in the cage! aka Chuck Lidell's Girl's Fight Club
Girls Fight Club

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.
Destroy All Monsters

Pretty Joy and her friend come to Moscow to shoot a commercial. A taxi driver, who recruits girls for an underground organization run by a distant descendant of Rasputin, suggests they visit the Rasputin Museum. During the tour, the girls are hypnotized by the evil character, who hypnotizes his victims before using their charms to seduce the rich tourists.
Joy in Moscow

The first rule is that there are no rules. For the bare-knuckle combatants competing in Musangwe fights, anything goes - you can even put a curse on him. The sport, which dates back centuries, has become a South African institution. Any male from the age of nine to ninety can compete. We follow a group of fighters as they slug it out in the ring. Who will be this year's champion?
Musangwe: Fight Club

Aïcha, a high-school student, is a passionate kung fu fighter. Her Turkish parents expect her to get good grades so she can get into medical school, like her brother Ali. But school doesn´t inspire her. Defying her family, Aïcha starts secretly training at a professional, co-ed kung fu club. A boy, Emil, helps Aïcha train for the club championship and they fall in love. But the rules of life are not as simple as the rules of kung fu, and Aïcha is forced to decide who she is and what she wants.
Fighter
Cartoon Network holds an awards show awarding cartoon excellence.
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Video installation showing the film "A Clockwork Orange", reduced to its colour.
A Clockwork Orange

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
Café Lumière

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
The Man Who Knew Too Much

This direct-to-draw animated film on 35 mm film features the imagery of 10 European directors in a collective project. Each produced 1 minute of animation on film, drawing directly onto it in his or her own style.
Re-Cycling

The documentary follows the steps of eminent journalist Edmundo Cruz of the investigation that he and other journalists conducted into the murder of the university professor and 9 students, arrested in 1992 during a military raid at the teacher training college of Enrique Guzmán y Valle, better known as "La Cantuta". The professor and students were never seen alive again. The remains of only five of the victims were ever found, among the barren hills on the road to Cieneguilla. The evidence led to the eventual conviction, in 2009, of members of the Grupo Colina death squad and of Former President Alberto Fujimori for human rights abuse crimes.
La Cantuta en la Boca del Diablo

A psychedelic animated short celebrating America's bicentennial. The film " provides a short, impressionistic history of the U.S. through famous American symbols, including the Statue of Liberty; the Woodstock logo; the Liberty Bell; and Mt. Rushmore. The symbols are layered on top of each other, as can be seen from a bald eagle hatching from a red, white, and blue egg and flying past the American Gothic farmers, the U.S. Capitol building, the Golden Gate Bridge, Abraham Lincoln’s cabin, and an American bison. The film was directed by Vince Collins" (US National Archives).
200

Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July.
Re-Elected

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.
Gunpowder

A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man.
The Mistress

Eight iconic performers of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists go on stage to celebrate their 50th career jubilee. The film depicts the human, personal dimension behind these icons, deconstructing gender stereotypes.
Divine Divas

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...