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Robert Hamer - what members say

It Always Rains on a Sunday review by A customer from Preston

The fleeting magic of Meier Tzelniker 18 July 2008
...This almost forgotten masterpiece of director Robert Hamer's is altogether different in tone and setting from his better known Kind Hearts and Coronets. I have an American ... Read customer review

Robert Hamer - filmography

School for Scoundrels on DVD (1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier
Director: John Boulting, Robert Asher, Mari
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The school for scoundrels is a college that teaches oneupmanship. Palfrey is the hapless new student who's unlucky in everything. Raymond Delauney is the already one-up cad who Palfrey must beat for affections of April.

76% from 1,454 member

Make Mine Mink on DVD (1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, hattie Jacques
Director: Robert Hamer, Robert Asher, John Boulting
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When Dame Beatrice (Athene Syler) retires from charitable work, she finds her life rather empty. Suddenly an irresistible request to help unfortunate orphans comes along, and inspired by her maid's chequered past, takes on one final charitable challenge. An incident with a neighbours mink coat ..read more »

66% from 598 members

Terry-Thomas Collection (6 discs) on DVD (1959)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Dennis Price
Director: Robert Hamer, John Boulting, Robert Asher
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Terry-Thomas, one of Britain's finest cinematic cads, gets his very own box set. Good show!

73% from 682 members

The Scapegoat (1959)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
Director: Robert Hamer
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In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He is John Barratt, a British teacher on vacation in France who is conned into taking on another identity. The identity he assumes is that of his double, Count Jacques de Gue, ..read more »

40% from 3 members
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Too Many Crooks on DVD (1958)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Alastair Sim
Director: Mario Zampi, Robert Hamer, Robert Asher
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Classic British farce about a gang of crooks who set out to kidnap a wealthy man's daughter, but get his unwanted wife instead. When the millionaire refuses to pay the ransom, she joins the crooks and plots revenge.

71% from 788 members

Brothers In Law on DVD (1957)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim
Director: Roy Boulting, Robert Hamer, John Boulting
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Newly qualified barrister Roger Thurnsby finds his first few appearances in court land him in all kinds of trouble...

72% from 295 members

The Naked Truth on DVD (1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Peter Sellers
Director: Mario Zampi, Robert Hamer, John Boulting
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The greedy editor of a trashy scandal magazine is confronted by several of the individuals whose lives are erroneously and luridly described in the tabloid. Their attempts to stop the publication of articles concerning themselves lead to a series of amusing events.

67% from 845 members

Private's Progress on DVD (1956)
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim
Director: John Boulting, Robert Hamer, Robert Asher
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Director John Boulting made this war comedy in reaction to the staid military dramas that had been coming out of England since the end of WWII, and its desire to explode the conventions of the war film are evident in the film's infectious giddiness. Ian Carmichael stars as Stanley Windrush, a young ..read more »

66% from 648 members

Father Brown on DVD (1954)
Starring: Gerard Oury, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Director: Robert Hamer
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Alec Guinness stars as G.K. Chesterton's legendary detective Father Brown in this splendid comedy thriller directed by Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets). When Father Brown hears that Flambeau (Peter Finch), an international art thief, is planning to steal a priceless cross once owned by ..read more »

68% from 259 members

Captain's Paradise on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
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Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St James has things well organised. He has a wife in Gibraltar, and a hot-blooded mistress in Tangiers. Things are perfect... so long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

69% from 360 members

The Man in the White Suit on DVD (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
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Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way and try to suppress it.

70% from 3,422 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
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An Ealing Studio classic, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is considered th emost perfect of the Golden-Age Ealing comedies. A deft and dark Edwardian comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. In order to inherit the entire D'Ascoyne fortune, the ..read more »

83% from 226 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets on DVD (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
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Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-..read more »

73% from 9,172 members

It Always Rains on a Sunday on DVD (1948)
Starring: Googie Withers, Edward Chapman
Director: Robert Hamer
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An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house but she has since married and is far from keen on the idea.

66% from 528 members

Pink String and Sealing Wax on DVD (1945)
Starring: Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson
Director: Robert Hamer
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A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.

68% from 121 members

John Mills - Centenary Collection Vol.2 (7 discs) on DVD
Starring: Noelle Middleton, John Mills, Elizabeth Sellars
Director: Anthony Asquith, Ralph Thomas, Robert Hamer
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This second volume in the JOHN MILLS CENTENARY COLLECTION features eight films starring the iconic British actor. Includes CAR OF DREAMS, FOREVER ENGLAND, THE WAY TO THE STARS, THE LONG MEMORY, ABOVE US THE WAVES, THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, TIGER BAY and RYAN'S DAUGHTER.

71% from 87 members

Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh
Director: Henry Cass, Robert Hamer, Alexander Mackendrick
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Collection of five films starring the iconic British actor. Includes LAST HOLIDAY, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT, CAPTAIN'S PARADISE and BARNACLE BILL.

76% from 925 members

Robert Hamer facts

5 most recent films

School for Scoundrels - 4.0 stars
Make Mine Mink - 3.5 stars
Terry-Thomas Collection - 3.5 stars
The Scapegoat - 2.0 stars
Too Many Crooks - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
School for Scoundrels - 4.0 stars
Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection - 4.0 stars
Kind Hearts and Coronets - 3.5 stars
Terry-Thomas Collection - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Scapegoat - 2.0 stars
Make Mine Mink - 3.5 stars
Private's Progress - 3.5 stars
It Always Rains on a Sunday - 3.5 stars
The Naked Truth - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dennis Price - 16 times - show films
Alec Guinness - 10 times - show films
Terry-Thomas - 9 times - show films
John Le Mesurier - 9 times - show films
hattie Jacques - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Asher - 9 times - show films
John Boulting - 8 times - show films
Mari - 8 times - show films
Alexander Mackendrick - 7 times - show films
Henry Cass - 7 times - show films