Never Back Losers
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Directed byRobert Tronson
Written byLukas Heller
Based onnovel The Green Ribbon by Edgar Wallace
Produced byJack Greenwood
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| Directed by | Robert Tronson |
| Written by | Lukas Heller |
| Based on | novel The Green Ribbon by Edgar Wallace |
| Produced by | Jack Greenwood |
| Starring | Jack Hedley Jacqueline Ellis Patrick Magee |
| Cinematography | Bert Mason |
| Edited by | Derek Holding |
| Music by | Bernard Ebbinghouse Ron Goodwin (composer: additional music – uncredited) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK) |
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Running time | 61 mins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Never Back Losers is a 1961 British 'B'[1] crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis and Patrick Magee.[2] It was written by Lucas Heller based on the 1929 novel The Green Ribbon by Edgar Wallace.[3] It was one of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series, produced at Merton Park Studios in the early 1960s.[4]
Horse racing jockey Wally Sanders loses a race, crashes his car, and a claim is made on his insurance. Jim Matthews, a shrewd insurance investigator, follows up the company's suspicion of foul play and finds himself deep in a web of gambling and corruption surrounding the racetrack.
Cast
- Jack Hedley as Jim Matthews
- Jacqueline Ellis as Marion Parker
- Patrick Magee as Ben Black
- Richard Warner as Crabtree
- Derek Francis as R. R. Harris
- Austin Trevor as Colonel Warburton
- Harry Locke as Burnside
- Larry Martyn as Clive Parker
- Howard Pays as Freddie
- Hilda Barry as Mrs Sanders
- George Tovey as Wally Sanders
- Larry Taylor as Reilly
- Harold Goodwin as Floyd
- Douglas Bradley-Smith as Carter
- Tenniel Evans as the doctor
- Stanley Morgan as police sergeant