

Fame Is the Spur
1 hour 56 minutes1947-09-23
6.5
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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

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)
