IT'S NEVER TO LATE TO MEND (1937) Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey & Marjorie Taylor | Drama | B&W

It's Never Too Late to Mend (alternatively Never Too Late to Mend; U.S. release title Never Too Late) is a 1937 British melodrama film directed by David MacDonald and starring Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey and Marjorie Taylor.

SYNOPSIS
The plot involves a villainous squire and justice of the peace who conspires to have his rival arrested on false charges.

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.

CAST & CREW
Tod Slaughter as Squire John Meadows
Jack Livesey as Tom Robinson
Marjorie Taylor as Susan Merton
Ian Colin as George Fielding
Laurence Hanray as Lawyer Crawley
D.J. Williams as Farmer Merton
Roy Russell as Reverend Mr. Eden
John Singer as Matthew Josephs
Leonard Sharp as Bradshaw
Mavis Villiers as Betty
Cecil Bevan as Prison Inspector
Douglas Stewart as Prison Inspector
Jack Vyvian as Innkeeper

Directed by David MacDonald
Written by H. F. Maltby
Based on It Is Never Too Late to Mend 1856 novel by Charles Reade
Produced by George King
Cinematography Hone Glendinning
Edited by John Seabourne Sr.
Music by Jack Beaver
Production company George King Productions
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date March 1937
Running time 70 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

NOTES
It is based on the 1856 novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade. The film was produced at Shepperton Studios as a quota quickie for release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was popular enough to be rereleased in 1942.

The novel had been adapted as a 1922 British silent film starring Russell Thorndike as Squire Meadows.