CinemaSerf
6.0/10Jul 14, 2024
Never Let Go
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Never Let Go (1960)
6.5 ?
Jun 02, 1960
Thriller, Crime
1h 30m
Overview
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
Overview
John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.
Genres
Thriller
Crime
Release Date
June 02, 1960
Rating
6.5
/10
Runtime
1h 30m
Official Trailer from YouTube
Richard Todd
John Cummings
Peter Sellers
Lionel Meadows
Elizabeth Sellars
Anne Cummings
Adam Faith
Tommy Towers
Carol White
Jackie
Mervyn Johns
Alfie Barnes
Noel Willman
Inspector Thomas
David Lodge
Cliff
John Bailey
Mackinnon
Nigel Stock
Regan
John Le Mesurier
Pennington
Peter Jones
Alec Berger
Roberta Tovey
Sandra Cummings
Charles Houston
Cyril Spink
Cyril Shaps
Cypriot
Marianne Stone
Madge
Larry Martyn
Len
Jan Holden
Mrs. Hurst
John Dunbar
Station Sergeant
Mignon O'Doherty
Manageress
CinemaSerf
6.0/10Jul 14, 2024
I'm afraid that I struggled with this... Richard Todd is "Cummings", a cosmetic salesman under pressure at work and at home, who finds his woes compounded when his new car is stolen. Determined to keep his job, and to find his car, he soon finds himself embroiled in the petty criminal world of a really poorly cast Peter Sellars ("Meadows") - who really hams the part up and looks like he ought to be selling Tiramisu somewhere. What ensues is a really rather lacklustre, soap-opera style, effort from all concerned including the charming, but under-used Elizabeth Sellars as wife "Anne", Adam Faith as the pretty but useless bovver-boy "Tommy" and David Lodge as the crook's right hand man who doesn't look like he could pull the skin off a custard. The drama and the pace are all too forced, we don't really understand what is driving Todd's character (well, I didn't anyway) - his amiable, gentle persona becomes someone implausibly readily all-too-handy with a monkey wrench before an ending that was pretty scratchy. It's got a decent look to it, to be fair, but it did nothing for me, sorry.
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