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1948 (Austria) moreTagline:
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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 synopsisUser Comments:
British Postwar Film Noir moreCast
(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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USA:Approved (PCA #12176) | Germany:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (2004)Fun Stuff
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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. moreQuotes:
[Morry has just told off Sadie for buying retail]Morry Hyams: Where are you going?
Sadie Hyams: To get some fresh air. Don't worry, I'll get it wholesale.
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It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), co-written and directed by Robert Hamer, is a film noir movie set in London's working class East End. The film is dated in many ways--London, two years after the end of WW II, is not the London that we know in the 21st Century. We can still see evidence of bomb damage, rationing still applies, and there's a sense of community where everyone knows everyone else's business. Police and petty criminals engage in banter: Joe runs a lunch wagon where criminals tend to meet. A detective sergeant stops at the wagon for information. Joe: We don't cater to the criminal classes. Detective Sergeant Fothergill: Turned over a new leaf?
Several plot lines run through the film. An escaped convict--scarred after being flogged with a cat-o-nine-tails--turns up at the home of a woman he once loved, and who loved him. Rose Sandigate, played by the talented and beautiful Googie Withers, has since entered into a practical marriage with a man 15 years older than she is. We enter into her life, along with the lives of her two step-daughters, her son, three petty criminals trying to get rid of stolen roller skates, and some Jewish good guys, bad guys, and not-so-bad guys.
The production values aren't great, and the lower class accents sometimes call for subtitles. Nevertheless, the central plot element of an escaped convict, who returns to find that the woman he loves has married while he was in jail, is as compelling now as it was 60 years ago.
Finally, the powerful scene of detectives chasing a man through the train yards in the dark, was surely known to Carol Reed when he directed "The Third Man." Reed's scene, set in the sewers of Vienna, took place miles away from Hamer's London. Even so, in compelling action and suspense, they have a great deal in common.