It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday
Original British quad poster
Directed byRobert Hamer
Screenplay byAngus MacPhail
Robert Hamer
Henry Cornelius
Based onIt Always Rains on Sunday
by Arthur La Bern
Produced byMichael Balcon
StarringGoogie Withers
John McCallum
Jack Warner
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byMichael Truman
Music byGeorges Auric
Production
company
Distributed byGDF (UK)
Release date
  • 25 November 1947 (1947-11-25) (UK)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£180,936[1]
Box officeover £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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Variety May 1948 p 20
  3. ^ Robert Murphy ""Hamer, Robert James (1911–1963), film director, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004–13 Archived 11 April 2013 at archive.today
  4. ^ Graham Fuller "It Always Rains on Sunday", theartsdesk.co, 26 October 2012

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