Fame Is the Spur
Fame Is the Spur
Release: 1947-09-23
·Runtime: 116m
·★ 6.5
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Two Cities Films
Boulting Brothers
Cast
Bernard Miles
as Tom Hannaway
Guy Verney
as Grandpa
Wylie Watson
as Pendleton
Michael Redgrave
as Hamer Radshaw
Ronald Adam
as Radshaws' Doctor (uncredited)
Harry Terry
as Man in Election Crowd (uncredited)
David Tomlinson
as Lord Liskeard
Gerald Sim
as Reporter (uncredited)
Rosamund John
as Ann Radshaw
Brian Weske
as The Boy Ryerson
Carla Lehmann
as Lady Lettice
Milton Rosmer
as Magistrate
Philip Ray
as Doctor (uncredited)
Honor Blackman
as Emma (uncredited)
Seymour Hicks
as Old Buck
Maurice Denham
as Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)
Kenneth Griffith
as Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)
Hugh Burden
as Arnold Ryerson
Marjorie Fielding
as Aunt Lizzie
Tony Wager
as The Boy Hamer
Vi Kaley
as Old Woman in Election Crowd (uncredited)
