It's Never Too Late to Mend

It's Never Too Late to Mend (alternatively just 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.^[1] In the film, a villainous squire and Justice of the Peace conspires to have his rival in love arrested on false charges.^[2]

It is based on the 1856 novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade.^[3] 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.

The novel was adapted once before, as a British silent film in 1922, starring Russell Thorndike as Squire Meadows.^[4]

Cast[]

• 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

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."^[5] 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."^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• It's Never Too Late to Mend at IMDb

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