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It Always Rains on Sunday

The secrets of a street you know

1947 · 1h 32m · APPROVED Crime, Drama
Directed by Robert Hamer

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Overview

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

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93%
Tomatometer
Fresh

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

Michael Sragow, New Yorker
Fresh

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

Stephen Garrett, Time Out
Fresh

This is a mostly forgotten gem.

Joel Brown, Boston Globe
Fresh

A real gem.

Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh

[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.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

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