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jewelled ring he gave her, which she has kept hidden from her husband. Tommy is pleased, but although he fails to recognise it as the engagement ring he had given her, she says nothing. As the day progresses, the police net closes. A newspaper reporter acting on a tip unexpectedly calls at the house to ask about her previous relationship with the escaped convict and arrives just as Tommy is about to flee, and Tommy assaults him and rushes out of the house. Recovering, the reporter rushes out to tip off the police. A panic-stricken Rose tries to gas herself. The prisoner is tracked by the police to railway sidings and after a chase is arrested by the detective inspector (
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She manages to keep his presence a secret from the family, but it is Sunday and the lunch must be cooked. The girls are admonished for their misdemeanours of the previous night, and the husband goes out to the pub as usual. Tommy needs money, and with only her housekeeping money, she gives him a
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s S. James Snyder observed: "When things go from gray to pitch black in the film's final moments, building to a climax that links the anguish of a prison inmate with the daily routine of a working-class wife, (the film) delivers an existential wallop for the ages". David Denby wrote in
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summed the film up as: ""Absolutely exhilarating! A bleak thriller realised with utter vibrancy, Robert Hamer's savoury stew of London's lower class roils with an emotional brutality and precision that most films don’t dare attempt, let alone achieve."
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and post-war deprivation. Rose Sandigate is a former barmaid married to a middle-aged man who has two teenage daughters from a previous marriage. She is now a housewife, but with her wounded heart and kindly husband is coping with the difficulties of
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and is on the run. A series of flashbacks indicate that Rose and Tommy were engaged when he got arrested, and he may well be the father of her young son. She is surprised by him, hiding in the family's
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described it as "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". The
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and a drab environment. As Rose discovers from a newspaper report, her former lover, Tommy Swann, who has served four years of a seven-year sentence for robbery with violence, has escaped from
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has grown from that of a neatly engrossing slice-of-life drama to a film often cited as one of the most overlooked achievements of late-1940s British cinema. Writing in
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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.
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The film concerns events taking place one Sunday (23 March 1947, according to the announcement blackboard at the local underground station) in
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movement in the French cinema of a few years earlier by the British writers Robert Murphy and Graham Fuller.
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The film earned distributor's gross receipts of £229,834 in the UK of which £188,247 went to the producer.
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The film was one of the most popular movies at the British box office in 1948. According to
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commented: "The film is in many ways a precursor to kitchen-sink movies like
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The film was given a theatrical re-release in the UK during 2012.
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the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1948 Britain was
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In the decades since its release, the reputation of
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quad poster
Robert Hamer
Angus MacPhail
Henry Cornelius
Arthur La Bern
Michael Balcon
Googie Withers
John McCallum
Jack Warner
Douglas Slocombe
Michael Truman
Georges Auric
Ealing Studios
GDF
Arthur La Bern
Robert Hamer
poetic realism
Bethnal Green
East End
London
bombing
post-war rationing
Dartmoor prison
air-raid shelter
Jack Warner
Googie Withers
Edward Chapman
Susan Shaw
Patricia Plunkett

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