Fresh
Hamer's artful and iconoclastic film mixes a day in the life of a working-class family with a startling prison-break melodrama.
Michael Sragow, New Yorker
It Always Rains on Sunday
The secrets of a street you know
1947 · 1h 32m · Approved
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Robert Hamer
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Overview
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Director and cast
- Robert Hamer Director
- Googie Withers as Rose Sandigate
- Edward Chapman as George Sandigate
- Susan Shaw as Vi Sandigate
- Patricia Plunkett as Doris Sandigate
- David Lines as Alfie Sandigate
- Sydney Tafler as Morry Hyams
- Betty Ann Davies as Sadie Hyams
- John Slater as Lou Hyams, Morrie's Brother
- Jane Hylton as Bessie Hyams, Morrie's Sister
- Meier Tzelniker Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A resolutely downbeat - remarkably so for Ealing Studios - account of a day in the life of Bethnal Green...
Stephen Garrett, Time Out
Fresh
This is a mostly forgotten gem.
Joel Brown, Boston Globe
Fresh
A real gem.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
[Hamer] shows a fluency with noir's shadowy visual vocabulary, but what really links this to the genre is its sense of haunting regret and lost opportunity.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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