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Status
Released
Release
1947
Runtime
1h 56m
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.
33 Cast Members
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)