Excellent Ealing Studios production

Shot in black and white the film looks slightly grimy but not without visual charm. The simple story makes for great suspense as a prison escapee (Tommy Swann) hides out at the home of his former fiance (Rose Sandigate) who has since married an older man who has children from a previous relationship that we never learn anything more about. His fiance helps him over the course of a day and we watch tensely as her clever plan is challenged by the events of Sunday and the other family members' lives and routines.

The film conveys a real sense of east end life and even the early signs of these east enders moving on as one character, Hyams, suggests that his family move out of the east end. (In fact many did, migrating to Essex and making way for new groups of people in the east end.) But the market scenes, the wheeler-dealing and even the relationship of the main police officer, Fothergill, to the petty criminals, is very evocative of London of old.

The heart of the film lies with Rose. Her romance with Swann promised excitement and possibilities of another life. His incarceration thwarted her desires and she settled for the security an older man offered and changed her hair colour in the process. Even though has hardened and behaves, at times, shrewishly with her husband and step-children, she is loyal to her husband and their reunion at the very end was understated and poignant.

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