About this title: When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to help the beleaguered workers in his area, he takes as his symbol a sword passed down to him by an ancestor who picked it up at the Battle of Peterloo in 1819, where it had been used against workers. Beginning as an idealistic defender of the oppressed workers, he rises to power in the Parliament, where he discovers that power corrupts and he becomes the very type of politician he had originally set out to displace. Sometimes slow-moving, this is an interesting look into ...
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Description: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Rosamund John, Carla Lehmann, Seymour Hicks. New in new packaging. 1947 Run time: 116. A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power. Based on the life of British Labor leader Ramsay MacDonald. Produced by John Boulting. read more
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