It's Never Too Late to Mend
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It's Never Too Late to Mend is a 1937 British
drama film
directed by David MacDonald
and starring Tod Slaughter
, Jack Livesey
and Marjorie Taylor. A villanous squire conspires to have his rival in love arrested on false charges. It is based on the novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend
by Charles Reade
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Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by David MacDonald
David MacDonald (director)
David MacDonald was a British film director, writer and producer. His first major film as director was The Brothers.-Select filmography:*The Last Curtain...
and starring Tod Slaughter
Tod Slaughter
Tod Slaughter was an English actor, best known for playing over-the-top maniacs in macabre film adaptations of Victorian melodramas.-Ealy life:...
, Jack Livesey
Jack Livesey
Jack Livesey was a British film actor. He was the son of Sam Livesey and the brothers of Barry Livesey and Roger Livesey.-Selected filmography:* The Passing of the Third Floor Back * Old Bones of the River...
and Marjorie Taylor. A villanous squire conspires to have his rival in love arrested on false charges. It is based on the novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend
It Is Never Too Late to Mend (novel)
It Is Never Too Late to Mend is an 1856 novel by the British writer Charles Reade. It was later turned into a play...
by Charles Reade
Charles Reade
Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
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Cast
- Tod Slaughter - Squire John Meadows
- Jack LiveseyJack LiveseyJack Livesey was a British film actor. He was the son of Sam Livesey and the brothers of Barry Livesey and Roger Livesey.-Selected filmography:* The Passing of the Third Floor Back * Old Bones of the River...
- Tom Robinson - Marjorie Taylor - Susan Merton
- Ian Colin - George Fielding
- Laurence HanrayLaurence HanrayLaurence Hanray , sometimes credited as Lawrence Hanray, was a British film actor born in London, England.-Partial filmography:* Beyond the Cities * Her Reputation * The Faithful Heart...
- Lawyer Crawley - D.J. Williams - Farmer Merton
- Roy Russell - Revevernd Mr. Eden
- John Singer - Matthew Josephs
- Leonard Sharp - Bradshaw
- Mavis VilliersMavis VilliersMavis Villiers, born Mavis Clare Cooney , was a British actress of stage, film and television. Her brother was Cecil Cooney, a camera operator and cinematographer. Her stage name, Villiers, was taken from her maternal grandfather...
- Betty - Cecil BevanCecil Bevan-Selected filmography:* The Old Curiosity Shop * It's Never Too Late to Mend * Paradise for Two * Inspector Hornleigh * Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday * Let the People Sing...
- Prison Inspector - Douglas Stewart - Prison Inspector
- Jack Vyvian - Innkeeper