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Bookmark this pageIt Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
Director: Robert Hamer
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From Time Out Film Guide
A resolutely downbeat - remarkably so for Ealing Studios - account of a day in the life of Bethnal Green when an escaped convict (McCallum) seeks shelter at the home of a former girlfriend (Withers), now respectably married but bored and waspishly discontented. No attempt is made to elicit easy sympathy for either of the protagonists as they pursue their selfish ends, and the sense of drab squalor, with pursuit ending in the railway yards, is a minor key echo of the poetic realism (also carefully studio-built) of prewar Carné and Renoir. Only slightly compromised by a certain pawkiness in some of the minor Cockney characterisations.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Hamer
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, Alfie Bass, Jimmy Hanley, John Slater, Sydney Tafler full cast
Duration: 92 mins
US Release: Nov 25 1947
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