Never Back Losers

Never Back Losers
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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	Merton Park Studios
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	1961
Running time	61 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Never Back Losers is a 1961 British crime 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. 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

• 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 the police sergeant

External links

• Never Back Losers at IMDb
• Never Back Losers at BFI Screenonline