Puzzle taking longer than usual?

Your iPhone or iPad is running older software. Updating may help: FilmLink supports iOS/iPadOS 16.4 and later. How to update your device.

Your Safari version is older than FilmLink supports (16.4 and later). Updating may help. How to update Safari.

You appear to be offline. Reconnect to the internet, then reload this page.

Loading has not finished. Check your connection, then try reloading this page.

Multiplayer Leagues Leaderboard Updates

Loading movie…

Turn movie knowledge into a game

Explore Fame Is the Spur's cast and crew, then connect two films in FilmLink's free daily movie game.

Play today's movie game Learn to play

Backdrop

Fame Is the Spur

Fame Is the Spur1947

★7.1116 minDrama

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.

Director

Writer

Score

John Wooldridge

Stars

Michael Redgrave Rosamund John Bernard Miles

Cast33

Michael Redgrave
as Hamer Radshaw
Rosamund John
as Ann Radshaw
Bernard Miles
as Tom Hannaway
Carla Lehmann
as Lady Lettice
Hugh Burden
as Arnold Ryerson
Marjorie Fielding
as Aunt Lizzie
S
Seymour Hicks
as Old Buck
Tony Wager
as The Boy Hamer
Brian Weske
as The Boy Ryerson
G
Gerald Fox
as The Boy Hannaway
J
Jean Shepeard
as Mrs. Radshaw
G
Guy Verney
as Grandpa
P
Percy Walsh
as Suddaby
David Tomlinson
as Lord Liskeard
C
Charles Wood
as Dai
Milton Rosmer
as Magistrate
Wylie Watson
as Pendleton
Ronald Adam
as Radshaws' Doctor (uncredited)
Honor Blackman
as Emma (uncredited)
C
Clifford Buckton
as Gamekeeper (uncredited)
C
Campbell Cotts
as Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
Maurice Denham
as Prison Doctor #2 (uncredited)
Kenneth Griffith
as Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)
R
Roddy Hughes
as Wartime Miners' Spokesman (uncredited)
Vi Kaley
as Old Woman in Election Crowd (uncredited)
L
Laurence Kitchin
as Radshaws' Secretary (uncredited)
Philip Ray
as Doctor (uncredited)
Gerald Sim
as Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Terry
as Man in Election Crowd (uncredited)
I
Iris Vandeleur
as Woman Who Opens Front Door (uncredited)
H
H Victor Weske
as Wartime Miners' Representative (uncredited)
B
Ben Williams
as Radical Orator (uncredited)
F
Fred Wood
as Unimpressed Welsh Miner (uncredited)

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

More like this

Hardball

The Cut

Sergio

The Young One

True Colors

What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

Hungry Hearts

The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence

The Most Hated Woman in America

The Most Hated Woman in America

All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

The House on Carroll Street

The House on Carroll Street

Fast Girls

Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

El Chicano

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

The Padre

Come Sunday

Skin

Rogue Agent

Gigi & Nate