Fame Is the Spur
6.5
|Drama
1947-09-23
116 mins
The 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.
Cast and 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)