Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
It Always Rains on Sunday is a British film of genre Drama directed by Robert Hamer released in USA on 13 february 1949 with Googie Withers

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

It Always Rains on Sunday
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 13 february 1949
Length 1h32
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating70% 3.541273.541273.541273.541273.54127

It Always Rains on Sunday is a 1947 British film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's 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.

Synopsis

The film concerns events one Sunday (23 March 1947, according to the calendars in the film) in Bethnal Green, a part of the East End of London that was suffering the effects of bombing and post-war deprivation.

Actors

Googie Withers

(Rose Sandigate)
Hermione Baddeley

(Doss, Housekeeper)
Edward Chapman

(George Sandigate)
Jack Warner

(Detective Sergeant Fothergill)
John McCallum

(Tommy Swann)
Trailer of It Always Rains on Sunday

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to It Always Rains on Sunday

There are 182 films with the same actors, 12 films with the same director, 66664 with the same cinematographic genres (including 8557 with exactly the same 2 genres than It Always Rains on Sunday), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked It Always Rains on Sunday, you will probably like those similar films :
The Loves of Joanna Godden, 1h29
Directed by Charles Frend, Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Googie Withers, Jean Kent, Josephine Stuart, Edward Rigby, Derek Bond, John McCallum
Rating66% 3.3329453.3329453.3329453.3329453.332945
In Edwardian Britain, a young woman has three suitors who seek her hand in marriage.
Pink String and Sealing Wax, 1h35
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Helen Goss
Rating66% 3.338863.338863.338863.338863.33886
The wife of a pub landlord in Victorian Brighton, who is having an affair, wants to rid herself of her abusive husband. To accomplish this she befriends a young man who works in his father's pharmacy. and thus has access to poison.
The Long Memory, 1h36
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Martin Harvey, John Chandos
Rating69% 3.492343.492343.492343.492343.49234
The protagonist, Davidson (John Mills), visits the boat of Captain Driver to ask permission to marry his daughter Fay. Aboard, he finds himself involved in a fight over the criminal activities of Boyd, a people trafficker with whom the Drivers are associated. The boat catches fire, and subsequent investigation finds aboard a charred corpse, Boyd having gone missing. The corpse is actually a client Boyd killed, but to cover up their involvement, the Drivers and another associate, Tim Pewsey, perjure themselves by claiming there was no other man present. This leads to the identification of the corpse as Boyd and to Davidson's conviction for his murder. He spends 12 years in prison.
The Spider and the Fly, 1h32
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray, George Cole, Edward Chapman, Maurice Denham
Rating66% 3.339923.339923.339923.339923.33992
In 1913, Fernand Maubert (Eric Portman), the dedicated chief of police of Paris, is after Philippe Lodocq (Guy Rolfe), a suave bank robber with a series of thefts to his credit, but the criminal always has an alibi. After the latest robbery, Maubert does capture Lodocq's accomplice, Madeleine Saincaise (Nadia Gray).
The Scapegoat, 1h31
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Geoffrey Keen
Rating67% 3.3975253.3975253.3975253.3975253.397525
John Barratt (Alec Guinness), a lonely, discontented teacher of French at a British university, vacations in France. There, by chance, he meets his double, French nobleman Jacques De Gué (Guinness again). They become acquainted. Barratt becomes drunk and accepts De Gué's invitation to share his hotel room. When he wakes up the next morning, Barratt finds himself alone in the room, with his clothes and passport missing. De Gué's chauffeur Gaston (Geoffrey Keen) shows up to take his master home, and Barratt is unable to convince him that he is not the nobleman. Gaston calls Dr. Aloin (Noel Howlett), who diagnoses the Englishman as suffering from schizophrenia.
Father Brown, 1h31
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Sid James
Rating66% 3.3443453.3443453.3443453.3443453.344345
Father Brown tries to transport an historically important cross to Rome engaging in battles of wits and faith with a thief and pursuing policeman. The thief, named Flambeau (Finch), is a master of disguise and is elusive, as Father Brown pursues him and tries to convince him to abandon his criminal career.
Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1h46
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Black comedy
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Miles Malleson, Clive Morton
Rating79% 3.9976053.9976053.9976053.9976053.997605
In Edwardian Britain, Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), tenth Duke of Chalfont, writes his memoirs while in prison awaiting his death by hanging the next morning. Most of the film consists of a flashback in which Louis narrates the events leading to his imprisonment.
To Paris with Love, 1h18
Directed by Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Jacques François, Austin Trevor, Élina Labourdette, Claude Romain
Rating55% 2.7572752.7572752.7572752.7572752.757275
Un noble britannique décidé d'emmener son fils à Paris, dans le but de lui trouver une femme. Ce dernier va en profiter pour faire la même chose pour son père. Mais tout ne va pas se passer comme prévu.
San Demetrio London, 1h44
Directed by Charles Frend, Robert Hamer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Walter Fitzgerald, Ralph Michael, Arthur Young, Gordon Jackson, Barry Letts, Robert Beatty
Rating66% 3.341883.341883.341883.341883.34188
En 1940, le "San Demetrio", un pétrolier de la Marine marchande Anglaise, qui traverse l'Atlantique pour ravitailler les troupes Britanniques, est torpillé par l'ennemi et prend feu. Après avoir dérivé pendant trois jours dans un canot de sauvetage, l'équipage qui avait fuit le navire en flammes, constate que celui çi ne coule toujours pas. Les menbres de l'équipage décide alors de remonter à bord pour tenter de suffoquer l'incendie. Mais les sous-marins Allemands rôdent dans l'atlantique. Les hommes parviendront, au prix d'un immense courage, à sauver le bâtiment et à lui faire regagner les côtes Britanniques...