Costly British Film Completed
ONE of the most costly productions made in Britain has just been completed. The film, "The Stars Look Down,” a G.B.D. release, has won instant appreciation. It reproduces the original novel by Dr. A. J. Cronin, author of "The Citadel.” The director, Carol Reed, is credited with transferring the novel to' the screen without the loss of any of the drama that made the story world famous.
The picture, which has as a background the lives of the colliery workers of‘England, had its mining sections filmed at the Workington Pits, Cumberland, with the entire population —men. women and children —in the film. Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood and Emlyn Williams are the stars, and the featured players of a east of thousands are Nancy Price, Allan Jeayes, Edward Rigby. Linden Travers. Cecil Parker and Milton Rosmer. Dr. Cronin is enthusiastic about the way in which his book has been brought to the screen.
TANE WYiMAN will in future be called Janet 'Wyman, announce Warners, to avoid confusion with Jane Bryan.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 98, 19 January 1940, Page 5
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173Costly British Film Completed Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 98, 19 January 1940, Page 5
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