Never Let Go (also known as Moment of Truth) is a 1960 British thriller film directed by John Guillermin and starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers and Elizabeth Sellars.

"[7] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote (1963): A short synopsis cannot hope to do justice to the sadistic impulse that appears to have guided John Guillermin through this unlovely exercise.

Obtrusive shock-cutting, exaggerated camera angles, and a selfconsciously strident use of "adult" language all serve to accentuate the essential falsity of the characterisations, and to advertise Never Let Go as a product of the new "traumatic" school of independent British film-making.

Peter Sellers almost succeeds in establishing the ruthless car dealer as a study of a twisted personality, almost fascist in his objective brutality; but this role, like Richard Todd's oddly appealing salesman, with his fake horn-rimmed spectacles and his nervous laugh, is quickly sacrificed to the demands of a script which, if it offers more than a frame for violence with undertones of the now fashionable criticism of police methods, makes a strong plea for comprehensive car insurance.

[8]The New York Times described Sellers "grinding his way through the rubble of a drearily routine plot" and attributed his performance in the film, different from his usual comedic roles, to "That itch to play Hamlet, I suppose; a desire to change his pace, which Mr.

Peter Sellers is cast against type as the leader of a stolen car racket, whose ruthless methods prompt victim Richard Todd and street punk Adam Faith to forge an unlikely alliance against him.

"[10] Leslie Halliwell said: "Brutishly unattractive thriller, apparently designed for the sole purpose of giving Peter Sellers a villainous part.

The trail leads through youthful thug Faith to gang boss Sellers (taking a rare tilt at a villainous role) in this stolid homegrown crime caper, considered very brutal in its day, with a self-consciously strident use of 'adult' language.

"[13] Yet, Olaf Möller, in his January 2014 article, ' Savage Spectacles ', for Film Comment, said of the director Guillermin: "...The only Guillermin film that was somewhat in synch with the fashion of the day is Never Let Go...an excursion into England's underworld that functions as a perfectly constructed parable about the new middle class's fear of falling—a kitchen-sink noir..." Never Let Go was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on 7 June 2005, as a Region 1 fullscreen DVD.