There Ain't No Justice
| There Ain't No Justice | |
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| Directed by | Pen Tennyson |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Written by |
Novel & screenplay: James Curtis Sergei Nolbandov Pen Tennyson |
| Starring |
Jimmy Hanley Edward Chapman Edward Rigby Michael Wilding |
| Music by | Ernest Irving |
| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
| Edited by | Ray Pitt |
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| Distributed by | ABFD |
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Release date
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June 1939 |
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Running time
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83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
There Ain't No Justice is a 1939 British sports drama film directed by Penrose Tennyson and starring Jimmy Hanley, Edward Chapman and Edward Rigby. The film is based on the 1937 novel of the same name by James Curtis. The novel was republished in 2014 by London Books as the tenth title in its London Classics series with a contemporary introduction by Martin Knight.
Tommy Mutch (Jimmy Hanley) is a garage mechanic and small-time boxer. With his family in financial difficulty he needs to find money in a hurry. As luck would have it he meets boxing manager Sammy Sanders (Edward Chapman). Sammy assures Tommy he can get him lucrative main event bouts.
Tommy is promoted as the next boxing star which is reinforced with a series of convincing wins. However, Tommy discovers that the bouts were fixed by a gambling syndicate. He realises now that he has been set up by his manager and is expected to take a fall.
He has little choice but to go-ahead but needs to come up with a plan. One that will guarantee a financial return for his family while also hitting the syndicates in the pocket.
James Curtis adapted his own novel, There Ain't No Justice to provide the screenplay for the film. He had done so the year before for one of his own novels, They Drive By Night, for the film of the same name. As with that adaptation he found himself having to remove areas of dialogue and story that would not get by the censors of the time. Many of these would be depictions of graphic violence against men rather than the sexual nature of his previous novel.
This was the first film directed by Pen Tennyson, who had served as Assistant Director to Alfred Hitchcock from 1934. He would go on to direct two further films before being killed during World War II.
The film features an uncredited role by real life boxer ”Bombardier Billy Wells. He is best known for being the second gongman at the beginning of many Rank Organisation films, replacing Carl Dane.
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