Its Never Too Late to Mend
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Genre Drama Director David MacDonald Music director Jack Beaver | 5.8/10 IMDb Duration Running time 1h 10m Screenplay H. F. Maltby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer H.F. Maltby (dialogue), H.F. Maltby (script), Charles Reade (novel) Initial release March 1937 (United Kingdom) Cast Tod Slaughter (Squire John Meadows), Jack Livesey (Tom Robinson), Marjorie Taylor (Susan Merton), Ian Colin (George Fielding), Laurence Hanray (Lawyer Crawley), D.J. Williams (Farmer Merton)Similar movies Tod Slaughter and others appear in Never Too Late to Mend and Maria Marten - or The Murder in the Red Barn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's Never Too Late to Mend (US release title Never Too Late) is a 1937 British melodrama film directed by David MacDonald and starring Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey and Marjorie Taylor. In the film, a villainous squire and Justice of the Peace conspires to have his rival in love arrested on false charges.
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It is based on the novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade. The film was made at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie for release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was popular enough to be re-released in 1942.
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Critical reception
TV Guide wrote, "Great fun in the old cloak-and-dagger melodrama style...Played in an exaggerated, bigger-than-life manner, this melodrama is a good enough outing, particularly for fans of camp." and Sky Movies wrote, "As usual, Tod Slaughter ignores the intimacy of the film medium and roars through this movie at full throttle, giving the kind of marvellously storming performance that would easily have reached the back row of the upper circle...David Macdonald is more a referee than a conventional director, coming up with a highly entertaining slice of ripe and fruity hokum."
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