It Always Rains on Sundays

At the Museum of Fine Arts. Directed by Robert Hamer (UK, 1947, 92 min.), who also directed Kind Hearts and Coronets. Black and white film noir, set in London's East End -- New 35mm print from Rialto. On another rainy Sunday in London, as Rose Sandigate (Googie Withers) goes about her daily, mundane chores, she discovers her ex-lover, Tommy Swann (John McCullum), hiding in her toolshed after escaping from prison. The film combines Hitchockian suspense with French poetic realism to create a portrait of post-war British life. “A bleak thriller realized with utter vibrancy, Robert Hamer’s savory stew of London’s lower class roils with an emotional brutality and prevision that most films didn’t dare attempt, let alone achieve. Dense and compact, melodramatic