Fame Is the Spur (1947)

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"A British politician changes from rabble-rouser of the working class to a stodgy Member of Parliament as he gradually abandons all his fine principles on the way up to power. This is a screen version of Howard Spring's novel about an ambitious Labour politician who grows increasingly more right-wing as he moves up the political ladder but then turns conservative. It begins in the late 19th century and ends somewhere around the middle of the 20th. It's a reasonably powerful movie and a somewhat "