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Fame Is the Spur

1947

1h 56m

6.50

Drama

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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.

Cast

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

David Tomlinson

Lord Liskeard

Milton Rosmer

Magistrate

Wylie Watson

Pendleton

Ronald Adam

Radshaws' Doctor (uncredited)

Honor Blackman

Emma (uncredited)

Maurice Denham

Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)

Kenneth Griffith

Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)

Vi Kaley

Old Woman in Election Crowd (uncredited)

Philip Ray

Doctor (uncredited)

Gerald Sim

Reporter (uncredited)

Harry Terry

Man in Election Crowd (uncredited)

Gerald Fox

The Boy Hannaway

Jean Shepeard

Mrs. Radshaw

Guy Verney

Grandpa

Percy Walsh

Suddaby

Charles Wood

Dai

Clifford Buckton

Gamekeeper (uncredited)

Campbell Cotts

Meeting Chairman (uncredited)

Roddy Hughes

Wartime Miners' Spokesman (uncredited)

Laurence Kitchin

Radshaws' Secretary (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)

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