• Director

    John Guillermin

  • With

    Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Adam Faith

  • UK 1960. 92min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    PG

  • A BFI National Archive print

This first-class thriller follows a salesman, brilliantly played by Todd, whose quest to recover his stolen car leads him into the hands of a brutal London gang, led by a cast-against-type Sellers. Guillermin’s brassy precision, revealing his fascination with characters driven by obsession and psychopathy, is heightened by John Barry’s score and Ralph Sheldon’s fast, riotous editing.

The screening of Never Let Go on Friday 29 May will be introduced by season curator Ehsan Khoshbakt.

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