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's Never Too Late to Mend
Directed byDavid MacDonald
Written byH. F. Maltby
Based onIt Is Never Too Late to Mend
1856 novel
by Charles Reade
Produced byGeorge King
Starring
CinematographyHone Glendinning
Edited byJohn Seabourne Sr.
Music byJack Beaver
Production
company
George King Productions
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
March 1937
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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]

Plot summary

Cast

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
  1. "It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
  2. "Never Too Late to Mend (1937) - David MacDonald - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  3. "It's Never Too Late to Mend (1913) - - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  4. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 252.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  5. "It's Never Too Late To Mend".
  6. "It's Never Too Late to Mend".


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