It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1937
Running Times: 70 mins
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Producer: George King
Production Manager: Harold Richmond

SCRIPT
Adaptation /Script / Dialogue: H.F. Maltby
Novel: Never Too Late by Charles Reade

DIRECTION
Director: David Macdonald
Assistant Directors: E.M. Smedley Aston, Tom Cundall

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Hone Glendinning

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: John Seabourne

SOUND
Sound Recordist: C.F. Sullivan at Sound City, England, on Visatonem under license from Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Phillip Bawcombe, Jack Hallwood

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Sally Hart

LOCATIONS
Studio: Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

CAST
Tod Slaughter (Squire John Meadows)
Jack Livesey (Tom Robinson)
Marjorie Taylor (Susan Merton)
Ian Colin (George Fielding)
Lawrence Hanray (Lawyer Crawley)
W.J. Williams (Farmer Merton)
Roy Russell (Reverend Mr Eden)
Johnny Singer (Matthew Josephs)

PLOT SUMMARY

An evil squire manipulates the justice system to get an innocent man sent to prison so that he can steal his lover. But the man overcomes the cruelty of the prison system to gain his revenge...

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Ambassador Films

USA
Video Distributor: Sinister Cinema

TIMELINE

1986
March
23: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

Never Too Late - US TV title

MAGAZINES

Kinematograph Weekly no.1562 (25 March 1937) (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.4 no.39 (March 1937) p.65 (UK)
note

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

book into film, prisons, revenge

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008