It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

  • 94% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 72% of users liked it
    (167 ratings)

After the war, British films began avoiding the heiresses and lordships that had dominated the drama field and began pursuing "realism" -- which often was just as artificial as the earlier white-telephone pictures. John McCallum plays Tommy Swann, a product of the working class who tries… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Henry Cornelius, Robert Hamer
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Nov 25, 1947 Wide
Rialto Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Sragow, New Yorker

    Hamer's artful and iconoclastic film mixes a day in the life of a working-class family with a startling prison-break melodrama.

  • Stephen Garrett, Time Out

    A resolutely downbeat - remarkably so for Ealing Studios - account of a day in the life of Bethnal Green...

  • Joel Brown, Boston Globe

    This is a mostly forgotten gem.

  • Dave Calhoun, Time Out

    A real gem.

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    [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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    a nearly forgotten postwar noir from ealing studios; a rich slice of lower class life in london's east end. googie withers plays a tough housewife, settled in with older husband and stepkids, whose sense of adventure is rekindled when her lost lover escapes from prison and turns… More

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]"It Always Rains on Sunday" is a movie that is impressive, complex and ahead of its time in depicting the citizens of an East End London neighborhood in a series of interlocking tales during a single day.(For example, one of the families portrayed is… More

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