DVD & Blu-ray: It Always Rains on Sunday (PG)

"I wish there was no such place as Bethnal Green," laments Googie Withers' barmaid, Rose, in this beautifully composed slice of 1947 Ealing melodrama.

Rose is married to solid-but-dull George and has a fractious relationship with her step daughters (Patricia Plunkett and the lovely Susan Shaw). However, her monotonous life is disrupted by the appearance of rotter Tommy Swann (John McCallum), a former lover who has escaped from prison and is heading to her unhappy home. Withers excels in Robert Hamer's tense movie.