It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

Directed by

Robert Hamer

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In post-war London, a woman's quiet life is disrupted when her former lover escapes from prison and asks her for help. She must decide whether to protect him or preserve the fragile stability of her family.

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What happens

It Always Rains on Sunday is a 1947 British film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's novel of the same name, directed by Robert Hamer. The film has been compared with the poetic realism movement in the French cinema of a few years earlier by the British writers Robert Murphy and Graham Fuller. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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