No Way Back is a 1949 British second feature ('B')[1] crime film directed by Stefan Osiecki and starring Terence De Marney, Eleanor Summerfield and Jack Raine.

The story concerns an injured boxer who sinks into bad company when his fighting career comes to an end leading to a spiral of crime.

Johnnie Thompson, a veteran and popular boxer known as "The Croucher" for his distinctive fighting style, enters the ring against a much younger opponent Tommy McGovern.

Thompson sinks into self-pity, returning to pubs in his old haunt in East London where he grew up to drink himself into an alcoholic stupor.

Sleat, who remembers Thompson as a young boy and was always jealous, is amused to see him in his current state and offers him a job working for him.

Restored by Beryl's confession of her love for him, and the sound of a nearby radio recounting the ongoing story of the siege and the career of the former champion "Croucher" Thompson—allowing him to briefly relive his glory days as a fighter—he accepts his fate and calmly walks outside to be shot down.

No Way Back was based on the short story "Beryl and the Croucher" by Thomas Burke, from his 1916 collection Limehouse Nights, who was known for his writings set in the East End of London.