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Appendix 1: Synopses of films
at the British box office and intiated the Wilcox/Neagle 'London¹
romances.

It Always Rains on Sunday

Robert Hamer, Ealing, UK 1947

Googie Withers; John McCallum; Jack Warner; Edward Chapman;
Sidney Tafler.

An escaped convict (McCallum) claims refuge from his sweetheart
of long ago (Withers) , now married with a son and adult step-
daughters. Her dilemma is played out against the Sunday routines
of London's East End, the interactions of the family and the
thriller format of the manhunt.

Jassy

Bernard Knowles, Gainsborough, UK 1947.

Margaret Lockwood; Patricia Roc; Dennis Price; Basil Sydney.

^,A gipsy servant girl falls in love with her master but is
accused of murder. Period romantic melodrama of the Man In Grey
school; poor of its kind despite high production values.'
Halliwell 1987.

The King and I

Walter Lang, 20th Century Fox, US 1956.

Deborah Kerr; Yul Brynner; Rita Moreno.

'Musical remake of Anna and the King of Siam, from the highly
successful stage production. The film is opulent in lush detail
but quite lacking in style.' Halliwell 1987.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Powell and Pressburger, GFD∕Archers, UK 1943.

Roger Livesy; Anton Walbrook; Deborah Kerr; Roland Culver; Ursula
Jeans.

The film chronicles the experience of Clive Candy (Livesy), a
British officer, drawing attention to the differing codes of
militarism and masculinity operating in the British and German
armies in the first world war, and following their evolution in
the 1939-1945 conflict. To those who opposed both its export and

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