Never Too Late

(1937)

67 minutes

aka "It's Never Too Late Too Mend"

Crime Drama

Country: Great Britain

Directed by David Macdonald

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 Rev. Mr. Eden 
John Singer as Matthew Josephs  
Mavis Villiers as Betty
Cecil Bevan as Prison Inspector 
Douglas Stewart as Prison Inspector

An evil Squire, who appears benevolent and is also one of the Justices of the Peace responsible for the county prison, sends an innocent man to prison in the hopes of marrying the girl he likes. She, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with him, until she is talked into marriage by her father, when she believes her lover, in Australia, has found another woman. But the Squire is a sadistic man, who enjoys mistreating his 'children' as he calls the inmates. 

Deplorable prison conditions during the 1850's England create quite a ruccous and caused Queen Victoria to demand an investigation into prison cruelty which brought about the reforms we see today~