It Always Rains on Sunday (1947 Robert Hamer & co-scr)

Written with Angus MacPhail and Henry Cornelius, based on a novel by Arthur La Bern. Hamer's dour Ealing drama is populated by a number of characters and stories, centring on the Sandigate family - remarried dad Edward Chapman (The Card, Gone To Earth, The History of Mr Polly) and Googie Withers and daughters Susan Shaw (having affair with married man Sydney Tafler) and Patricia Plunkett (tempted into wrong sort of life by local criminal John Slater).

Into their orbit comes Withers' former lover - freshly escaped from Dartmoor John McCallum - pursued by Jack Warden (who else?) And petty criminals Jimmy Hanley, John Carol and Alfie Bass.

Bethnal Green was throbbing on a Sunday - the shops are open and there's a bustling Sunday market. (Of course it was filmed all over the place, some of it still there, in Chalk Farm, Camden, Newham and the East End.)

Immeasurably enhanced by Dougie Slocombe's black and white camerawork and a typically eccentric score from Georges Auric. Hamer manages things confidently, such as the chase finale through a railway yard.