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Never Back Losers

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Never Back Losers
Directed byRobert Tronson
Written byLukas Heller
Produced byJack Greenwood
StarringJack Hedley
Jacqueline Ellis
Patrick Magee
CinematographyBert Mason
Edited byDerek Holding
Music byBernard Ebbinghouse
Ron Goodwin (composer: additional music - uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
1961
Running time
61 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Never Back Losers is a 1961 British film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis and Patrick Magee. The film is based on The Green Ribbon (1929) by Edgar Wallace.[1] It was one of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s.

Plot

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

References

  1. ^ "Never Back Losers". BFI.