Never Let Go is like a British urban western mixed with the Bicycle Thief.
Richard Todd plays John Cummings a struggling salesman for a cosmetics firm. He is late for appointments, he is not meeting his targets and his job is under threat.
Cummings buys a car; a Ford Anglia which he thinks will improve his prospects. He can just afford the finance payments but only gets it insured third party.
When the car is stolen, Cummings world collapses. Under pressure from his firm and family, he desperately searches for his car. He finds out that a local gang stole his car.
The car was stolen by young hoodlum Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) and his friends on behalf of Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers) a low rent gangster who runs a stolen car racket.
An old newspaperman saw Tommy steal the car. Meadows is angry at Tommy for stealing the car in his patch and not some miles away.
Now Cummings is hanging around like a bad stench as he pesters the police towards Tommy and then Meadows.
This is Todd's film. In his desperation he makes mistakes. He winds up people during his sales round, he aggravates the police, he frustrates his wife, he gets beaten by Tommy's gang.
Cummings is a man who has a head full of dreams that come to nothing. That car was his last chance saloon.
Sellers in a straight role, is brash and thuggish with a Brummie accent of sorts. He is mean to everyone around him. The final showdown is between him and Cummings.
The film is not too successful though. Cummings does not invite too much sympathy. Faith is bland. The film was probably gritty at the time, it looks a bit tame now. Sellers is believable as the vicious and slimy villain.
Richard Todd plays John Cummings a struggling salesman for a cosmetics firm. He is late for appointments, he is not meeting his targets and his job is under threat.
Cummings buys a car; a Ford Anglia which he thinks will improve his prospects. He can just afford the finance payments but only gets it insured third party.
When the car is stolen, Cummings world collapses. Under pressure from his firm and family, he desperately searches for his car. He finds out that a local gang stole his car.
The car was stolen by young hoodlum Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) and his friends on behalf of Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers) a low rent gangster who runs a stolen car racket.
An old newspaperman saw Tommy steal the car. Meadows is angry at Tommy for stealing the car in his patch and not some miles away.
Now Cummings is hanging around like a bad stench as he pesters the police towards Tommy and then Meadows.
This is Todd's film. In his desperation he makes mistakes. He winds up people during his sales round, he aggravates the police, he frustrates his wife, he gets beaten by Tommy's gang.
Cummings is a man who has a head full of dreams that come to nothing. That car was his last chance saloon.
Sellers in a straight role, is brash and thuggish with a Brummie accent of sorts. He is mean to everyone around him. The final showdown is between him and Cummings.
The film is not too successful though. Cummings does not invite too much sympathy. Faith is bland. The film was probably gritty at the time, it looks a bit tame now. Sellers is believable as the vicious and slimy villain.