Staring sydney tafler, john slater, jane hylton and alfie bass. Although ealing studios are better known for their comedies they did produce a series of realist films that chronicled the lives of the ordinary and working class. Featured in time outs 100 best british films list, it always rains on sunday is considered one of the greatest achievements of 1940s british cinema. Directed by 1 writing credits 4 cast 35 produced by 2 cinematography by 1 film editing by 1 art direction by 1 makeup department 5 production management 2 second unit director or assistant director 4 art department 1. The film is dated in many wayslondon, two years after the end of ww ii, is not the london that we know in the 21st century. I had obviously seen these comedies but on 1st june 2015 i saw it always rains on sunday 1947 for the first time. It always rains on sunday 1947 robert hamer synopsis. It always rains on sunday 1947, cowritten and directed by robert hamer, is a film noir movie set in londons working class east end. The film is in many ways a precursor to kitchensink movies like saturday night and sunday morning and that huge, teeming market scene. Edward chapman, googie withers, susan shaw, patricia plunkett, david lines, sydney tafler, betty ann davies, john slater, jane hylton, meier tzelniker, robert hamer, it always rains on sunday 1947, it always rains on sunday 1947, robert hamer, edward chapman, googie. Robert hamer s third ealing film as director is a bleak, claustrophobic melodrama, showing a seamy side of life.
It always rains on sunday 1949 financial information. It always rains on sunday, dvd, special edition, anamorphic, mystery suspense, 738329240257. It always rains on sunday movie trailer and videos tv guide. The finest movie in this mode is it always rains on sunday, made in 1947 in grimy, blitzscarred east london and being revived in a new print as an example of. Find where to watch it always rains on sunday and many more fulllength. Financial analysis of it always rains on sunday 1949 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. It always rains on sunday 1950 stream and watch online.
So so suspense film that is worth seeing for the performance of googie withers, a most under appreciated actress, kind of a british marie windsor, if you. It always rains on sunday presents a number of concurrent story threads that sometimes but not always intersect. It always rains on sunday special edition bluray kino lorber. From robert hamer, the legendary director of kind hearts and coronets, dead of night and the detective. Kind hearts director robert hamer shows the same masterly ensemble control two years earlier in this east end melodrama. Look out for one scene, featuring the milkman, delivering milk, and. Released february th, 1950, it always rains on sunday stars googie withers, john mccallum, jack warner, edward chapman the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 32 min, and received a score of. An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lovers house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
It always rains on sunday picture palace movie posters. It always rains on sunday brighton rock movie photos and. Its sliceoflife approach kills any real tension and drama it may have tried to create, but if you allow yourself to relax and let its myriad of stories wash over you, there is plenty to like. Set in presentday bethnal green, in londons east end, it follows various characters over a single, 24hour day, beginning early morning on a sunday and, yes, it does rain that day. 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. Like a classic greek tragedy, the characters you meet in the first half of the movie come into a spiral of conflicts in the second part, apparently because it always rains on sunday therefore forcing together the people who work a sixday week for low wages. It always rains on sunday on dvd 738329240257 from kino video. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. It always rains on sunday special edition, anamorphic on. Robert hamers bleak portrait of life in londons east end.
I was familiar with googie withers from the time of her support role to margaret lockwood in the hitchcock film the lady. Crime meets domestic melodrama in the british film it always rains on sunday 1947, recently released on bluray and dvd by kino lorber. It always rains on sunday 1947 directed by robert hamer. Heavy rains likely over chennai, tamil nadu on sunday.
Find where to watch it always rains on sunday and many more fulllength movies from the best streaming services online. It always rains on sunday, however, is not a comedy but a crime drama, an example of the studios more serious output. The third film for ealing by director robert hamer. Watch it always rains on sunday movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. Watch it always rains on sunday full movie video dailymotion. Though i know the film id never seen the poster before and it started me looking into the story of its artist, one james boswell. It always rains on sunday is an excellent film, a postwar british slice of life told through a noir lens. The action is set in bethnal green, a working class district of east london, in the years following the end of the second world war. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing it always rains on sunday near you. The other day i stumbled upon this evocative and quite unusual poster for the 1947 ealing noir it always rains on sunday.
After the war, british films began avoiding the heiresses and lordships that had dominated the drama field and began pursuing. It always rains on sunday is an interesting depiction of everyday life in postwar london. It always rains on sunday is a dark and dramatic tale set in a bombeddamaged postwar east end london. Beautifully shot, with film noir ish touches and a. During a rainy sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his exfiance. We guarantee to only deal in the very best original, most desirable rare film posters from 19201980 with an emphasis on great art and design of 1940s1960s and have a special interest in hammer horror.
The finest movie in this mode is it always rains on sunday, made in 1947 in grimy, blitzscarred east london and being revived in a new print. I was familiar with googie withers from the time of her support role to margaret lockwood in the hitchcock film the lady vanishes. A couple of months ago i wrote about the british artist edward bawden and his posters for ealing studios. While the narrative is not quite as tightly realized as the other top noirs of the period, it has enough memorable sequences, performances, and details to rank with the best of them. It always rains on sunday is a dark and dramatic tale set in bombeddamaged east london. It always rains on sunday 1947 nonusa format, bluray, reg.
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