The stars look down (movie)

Movie
German title	The stars look down
Original title	The Stars Look Down
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1939
length	110 minutes
Rod
Director	Carol Reed
script	AJ Cronin A. Coppel J.B. Williams
production	Isadore Goldsmith
music	Hans May
camera	Mutz Greenbaum Ernest Palmer
cut	Reginald Beck
occupation
Michael Redgrave : Davey Fenwick Margaret Lockwood : Jenny Sunley Emlyn Williams : Joe Gowlan Nancy Price : Martha Fenwick Allan Jeayes : Richard Barras Edward Rigby : Robert Fenwick Linden Travers : Mrs. Laura Millington Cecil Parker : Stanley Millington Milton Rosmer : Harry Nugent, MP

The Stars Look Down (Original title: The Stars Look Down ) is a British film drama , which in the January 22, 1940 London experienced its first performance. It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by AJ Cronin from 1935. The film is about various injustices in a mining company in north-east England. The film, which Cronin himself co-wrote the script, shows Michael Redgrave as Dave Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley, his wife.

background

The novel The Stars Look Down ( The Stars Look Down ) was the first literary world success of AJ Cronin. Just a few years after the book was published, Carol Reed began implementing it on film. Producer Isidore Goldsmith presented the giant for its time budget of 100,000 pounds available. This allowed a coal mine in Workington , Cumberland to serve as the original location for a week . Further filming was carried out at Twickenham Studios in London and at Shepperton Studios . Elaborate replicas of the mine in Workington and the mine workers' settlement provided the necessary local color.

Reviews

"Realistic film adaptation of a socially critical novel by AJ Cronin."

- Lexicon of international film

“Carol Reed managed to write an unpathetic, impressive, socially critical report here. The milieu is captured convincingly; Although the people involved represent positions that are determined by their origin and class, they always remain lively, individual people, whose fate is taken personally. "

- Reclam's film guide

The New York Times named the film to the list of the 1000 best films of all time .

literature

• AJ Cronin : The stars are looking down. Roman (Original title: The Stars Look Down ). German by Richard Hoffmann and Peter Linnert . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11552-3 .

Web links

• The Stars Look Down in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Article in The New York Times (English)
• The 1000 best movies ever (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The stars look down. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 29, 2017 .  
2. ^ Reclam's film guide. Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1973, p. 534, ISBN 3-15-010205-7