As luck would have it he meets boxing manager Sammy Sanders (Edward Chapman).
James Curtis adapted his own novel, There Ain't No Justice to provide the screenplay for the film.
[2] This was the first film directed by Pen Tennyson, who had served as Assistant Director to Alfred Hitchcock from 1934.
Due in part to its distinctive realistic portrayal of the boxing world it became a critical success.
[6] However, the author Graham Greene, having praised the previous year's James Curtis adaptation (They Drive by Night), was not convinced.