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Ealing director Robert Hamer ( Kind Hearts And Coronets ) had a passion for french cinema, and with Rains he made a fair stab at transposing the poetic realism of Marcel Carné/ Jacques Prévert ( Les Enfants Du Paradis ) into a British context.
Released in1947,it depicts a drab, austerity-era East London of pinched lives and petty crime.
Googie Withers is on top form as the discontented wife of an older man whose sexy, dangerous ex-lover (John Mccallum) comes back into her life after escaping from jail.
At the end–as so often in Hamer’s work–family life closes in again like a trap.
The Rings of Power season 2, episode 7 is the show's version of The Two Towers – and it's the best episode of TV released all year
The long-awaited next entry in the cult classic horror RPG series Pathologic is getting a free "prelude" game, and after 19 years we'll finally see the mysterious Capital
Amazing Spider-Man is relaunching with a new #1 in 2025 with a focus on classic villains
