• It Always Rains on Sunday

8/7/23 (Mon)

A noir film of 1947 by the famed Ealing Studio, which I know more for its comedies; indeed, director Robert Hamer is best known for his fabulous Kind Hearts and Coronets for the studio a few years later.

We are in contemporary (postwar) London’s working-class East End. A convict escapes from prison and finds his way to the home of his former sweetheart Rose, a hardened shrew now married to a dull but stable businessman with two grown daughters from his previous marriage and a son of their own (who, it is hinted, may in fact be the convict’s child). She does her best to clear everyone out of the small house and hide the convict despite a constant danger of discovery. Continue reading →