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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.
A new Batman #1 from Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez launches this September with a "revamped aesthetic," a throwback costume, and a new Batmobile
Marvel reveals its full slate of May 2025 comics and covers featuring the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and more
Former Witcher 3 lead says his new vampire RPG Blood of Dawnwalker has a smaller open world because "it feels more like you actually know the place" compared to "behemoths"
