When an escaped convict (John McCallum) demands that an old flame (Googie Withers) – now married but bored – let him hide in her Bethnal Green home, she inevitably experiences mixed emotions. Suspenseful and pleasingly sour in its observation of familial tensions, Robert Hamer’s classic makes imaginative use of an ordinary postwar home; in particular, the bedroom becomes a spur for private memories and illicit desires.
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
An escaped convict seeks refuge in his ex-girlfriend’s house in Robert Hamer’s tense melodrama.
- 1947 United Kingdom
- Directed by
- Robert Hamer
- Produced by
- Michael Balcon
- Written by
- Angus MacPhail, Robert Hamer, Henry Cornelius
- Featuring
- Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum
- Running time
- 92 minutes
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