| It Always Rains on Sunday | |
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 Original British quad poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Hamer |
| Screenplay by | Angus MacPhail Robert Hamer Henry Cornelius |
| Based on | It Always Rains on Sunday by Arthur La Bern |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | Googie Withers John McCallum Jack Warner |
| Cinematography | Douglas Slocombe |
| Edited by | Michael Truman |
| Music by | Georges Auric |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | GDF (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £180,936[1] |
| Box office | over £400,000 (UK) ($US $1.6 million)[2] |
It Always Rains on Sunday is a 1947 British film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's novel of 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[3] and Graham Fuller.[4]
- ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 355. Gross is distributor's gross receipts.
- ^ Variety May 1948 p 20
- ^ Robert Murphy ""Hamer, Robert James (1911–1963), film director, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004–13 Archived 11 April 2013 at archive.today
- ^ Graham Fuller "It Always Rains on Sunday", theartsdesk.co, 26 October 2012