It Always Rains on Sunday

This film is considered to be the best of the non-comedy works produced by Ealing Studios. It uses a film noir technique to depict the life of the working class in the East End of London. It can be called a pioneer of radical realism (kitchen-sink) works. In 2008, the film received high praise from American film critics at the British Film Noir Season in New York, but until then, the film had been little known and was therefore considered an overlooked masterpiece of 1940s British cinema. "The Village Voice" praised the film as "a masterpiece depicting 'dilemma' and 'unfulfilled wishes'. It is extremely innovative in terms of flashbacks and multiple superimposed narratives, and the performances of Weathers and McCallum are also wonderful." "Time Out" commented that the film is "an extremely exciting piece of work! A vibrant but miserable thriller, Robert Hammer's London lower-class stew is thrilling with its cruelty and precision. This is something that most movies dare not attempt, let alone achieve." The film begins on a rainy weekend morning with Rose Sandigate (Georgie Way), a housewife living in the East End of London.