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There Ain't No Justice is a British film of genre Drama directed by Pen Tennyson with Jimmy Hanley
There Ain't No Justice (1939)
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Add to a movie listThere 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.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Jimmy Hanley
(Tommy Mutch)
Edward Chapman
(Sammy Sanders)
Edward Rigby
(Pa Mutch)
Mary Clare
(Ma Mutch)
Michael Wilding
(Len Charteris)
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