An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
John Singer
- Matthew Josephs
- (as Johnny Singer)
Cecil Bevan
- Prison Inspector
- (uncredited)
Leonard Sharp
- Henry Bradshaw
- (uncredited)
Douglas Stewart
- Prison Inspector
- (uncredited)
Mavis Villiers
- Betty
- (uncredited)
Jack Vyvyan
- Innkeeper
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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This is an underrated portrait of the Victorian prison system and the chaplain who tried to change it. An evil squire(Tod Slaughter) sends an innocent man to the British version of Alcatraz in order to get his filthy mitts on a beautiful girl. The cinematography is what makes this film so memorable. The effective use of light and shadow to accentuate the misery and suffering of the inmates, many of which are victims of a corrupt system, foreshadows a style utilized in many venerable products of English postwar cinema such as David Lean's Oliver Twist(1948) Some modern critics have panned this and many other Tod Slaughter films due to the melodramatic, stagey acting. While films like The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(1936) barely hold up today, Never Too Late is the exception because it is well-acted and photographed and is relevant to the global problem of human rights abuses that in these supposedly progressive times has still to be wiped out. After viewing this, I can see why Queen Victoria passed so many prison reform bills after seeing this story done on stage.
- orsonwelles
- Jan 16, 2001
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- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937) officially released in Canada in English?
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