Fame Is the Spur (1947)
Passed | 1h 36min | Drama | 30 November 1949 (USA)
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Director: Roy Boulting
Writers: Howard Spring (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay)
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles
Passed | 1h 36min | Drama | 30 November 1949 (USA)
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Director: Roy Boulting
Writers: Howard Spring (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay)
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles
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00:00But you've got a long way to go, Hamer.
00:05You can't get fired in a second-hand bookshop.
00:09I want to learn my job.
00:11What job, lad?
00:13The job I've got to do.
00:14To make things fairer.
00:17To get rid of all this poverty and dirt.
00:21Well, to talk to people and make them see that all this has got to be changed.
00:26Everyone's got to have enough to eat.
00:28You're going to put the world right, eh?
00:31I'm going to try.
00:32Well, that's not a bad thing to do when you're young.
00:35You might even make a living at it, some do.
00:38But not everything you've got to learn for that comes out of books.
00:42Here comes your pupil.
00:51Good afternoon, Miss Artingstall.
00:53Good afternoon.
00:55Good afternoon, Mr. Redshaw.
00:57Good afternoon, Miss Artingstall.
00:59What revolutionary stuff has he been giving you now?
01:02Our student's introduction to Karl Marx?
01:05I don't know what your father would say.
01:07Neither do I.
01:08Luckily, Daddy doesn't read much.
01:10Well, if Hamer turns you into a radical, I disclaim all responsibility.
01:18Well, have you read it?
01:20Yes, at least...
01:22All of it?
01:23Well, it's a bit solid.
01:26Not hollow.
01:28I think it's all rather horrid.
01:30Oh, of course it is, for the rich.
01:33I didn't mean that.
01:34I mean, it's horrid that there should be so many people as poor as that.
01:38Horrid.
01:39What a nice, ladylike word.
01:41A wet day is horrid, but poverty is horrible.
01:46You think what he wants is possible?
01:48Possible and surgical. It must come.
01:51It would be good if it did.
01:54Not for you.
01:55Well, not for you either, for that matter.
01:56You're not a worker.
01:57Not the way he means.
01:59Nonsense. Of course I am.
02:00I'm...
02:01I mean, I'm not a labourer, but I work.
02:03I earn my living instead of being a parasite who lives on other people's work.
02:07I'm...
02:08What should I read next, Mr. Redshaw?