It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday is a 1947 British film adaptation of Arthur La Berns novel by 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, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and Graham Fuller.

Rose Sandigate Googie Withers is a former barmaid married to a middleaged man Edward Chapman who has two teenage daughters from a previous marriage. She is a bossy, strident housewife, coping with the difficulties of rationing, nearslum housing and a drab, joyless environment. A former lover, Tommy Swann played by John McCallum, who soon afterwards married Withers, jailed some years earlier for robbery with violence, escapes from prison and is discovered by Rose hiding in the familys airraid shelter. He asks her to hide him until nightfall. Rose initially refuses but, clearly still in love with him, eventually allows him to hide in the bedroom she shares with her husband, after the other members of the household have gone out. She then keeps the bedroom locked.However, it proves extremely difficult to keep the presence of the escapee a secret in such a busy, bustling household particularly with her former lover intent on seducing her. It is Sunday morning and the lunch must be cooked, the girls admonished for their misdemeanours of the previous night and the husband packed off to the pub out of the way. The strain is intolerable and as the day progresses, the police net closes, after a newspaper reporter interrupts them, as Tommy is about to flee, and soon tips off the police. ........

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