Due Today: " FormatCurrency(installmentTotal) "; } It Always Rains on Sunday

Great Britain 1947
Director: Robert HAMER
"It's another rainy Sunday in London's East End, its row houses, street markets, and narrow rooms populated by tea sippers and thugs, wide boys and spivs, temperance groups and coppers. Luckless cons work to offload the fruits of a botched raid (roller skates), a band leader aims his lechery towards a nave young beauty, and, in one particularly cramped home, a fugitive (John McCallum) hides in the upstairs bedroom, protected by a housewife (Googie Withers) who was once his lover. All dreams are dead ends; all trains return to the East End. Hamer (Kind Hearts And Coronets, Dead Of Night) ably juggles multiple story lines and flashbacks, while a final chase scene through the steam and shadows of a London rail yard adds an Anthony Mann-like noir flourish to the poetic fatalism." -Pacific Film Archive. "A masterpiece of dead ends and might-have-beens, highly inventive in its use of flashbacks and multiple overlapping narratives, and brilliantly acted by Withers and McCallum a sprawling, Altmanesque tapestry of East End life Hamer might have been one of the major figures in modern British cinema. As things stand, It Always Rains On Sunday is a major work, badly in need of rediscovery."-Scott Foundas, The Village Voice. (92 mins.) Newly restored 35mm print.