Stars Look Down, The

Aroview: Gritty account of life in a Northumberland coal mining village was dir. Reed's first notable film and still one of his most successful.

Centred around a young idealist whose resolve to close down a dangerous pit is tested by social pressures, union politics and domestic troubles. Not entirely authentic, but for its time, this was remarkably committed to an unsentimental perspective without a 'happy ending'.

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