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It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
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1948 (Austria)
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The secrets of a street you know
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An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house but she has since married and is far from keen on the idea. full summary | add synopsis
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Superb and spellbinding British Film Noir
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Googie Withers | ... | Rose Sandigate | |
| Edward Chapman | ... | George Sandigate | |
| Susan Shaw | ... | Vi Sandigate | |
| Patricia Plunkett | ... | Doris Sandigate | |
| David Lines | ... | Alfie Sandigate | |
| Sydney Tafler | ... | Morry Hyams | |
| Betty Ann Davies | ... | Sadie Hyams | |
| John Slater | ... | Lou Hyams, brother of Morrie | |
| Jane Hylton | ... | Bessie Hyams, sister of Morrie | |
| Meier Tzelniker | ... | Solly Hyams, father of Morrie | |
| John McCallum | ... | Tommy Swann | |
| Jimmy Hanley | ... | Whitey | |
| John Carol | ... | Freddie | |
| Alfie Bass | ... | Dicey Perkins | |
| Jack Warner | ... | Detective Sergeant Fothergill |
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92 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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USA:Approved (PCA #12176) |
Germany:16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (video rating) (2004)
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Boom mic visible: At the club, when Sadie (Morry's wife) sits down to talk to Doris, the spotlight shines on the wall behind them, and the shadow of the microphone is briefly visible.
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Joe:
We don't cater to the criminal classes.
Detective Sergeant Fothergill: Turned over a new leaf?
Joe: There's such a thing as a law of libel.
Detective Sergeant Fothergill: There's such a thing as ham, but there's none in this sandwich.
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Detective Sergeant Fothergill: Turned over a new leaf?
Joe: There's such a thing as a law of libel.
Detective Sergeant Fothergill: There's such a thing as ham, but there's none in this sandwich.
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Featured in Forever Ealing (2002) (TV)
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Theme Without Words
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Film Noir defies definition, plenty disagree whether its a movement, genre, style. Perhaps its more usefully conceived as a sensibility, a world view, an attitude. In which case the words pessimism, determinism ie characters lacking choice their lives are predetermined, doom, gloom, the past coming back to affect the present all spring to mind. Its possible to see a cycle of films with remarkably consistent features in terms of visual style emerging in U.S primarily and to a lesser extent the U.K and France in the forties and fifties. While most noir films have a male as the central protagonist, a male who is invariably weak and flawed, a number of these films, such as Mildred Pierce, have a female protagonist. Noir manifested itself differently in Britain, combining with elements of what was to become known as kitchen sink or social realism and frequently concerned with social class.
This film uses the claustrophobic interiors of the terraced house to great effect. The noir style of long shadows, oblique angles, becomes more evident in the final climax, not really needed early on since the interiors work effectively without lighting effects. Melancholia drips through this like the rain of the title, Googie Withers is terrific, her face a mask of dreams, desires pushed away, disappointment etched over her features through her hard make up. How different she is in appearance to the femmes fatales of the U.S movies, bustling round the kitchen in her pinafore, then later on the almost military smartness of her utility dress when she attends Tommy. As a character shes every bit as strong however as her American counterparts. Like Mildred Pierce, she's strong in a domestic setting, when the usual convention for women in noir is to take them out of the domestic, placing them typically as nightclub singers or gangsters molls. In details I ll acknowledge this is on occasions cheesy and dated. Scratch at the surface however and its a fascinating exploration of the social tensions emerging after World War Two. How were people to adjust to life in peacetime? Were they able to return to the rigidly prescribed roles they d had prior to the war? Ealing studios produced a number of films which now can be seen to share many affinities with American Film Noir, this is one of the most interesting and rewarding.