Fame Is the Spur
1h 56min

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 Companies

Two Cities Films

Boulting Brothers

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