A British adaptation of a novel by the same name: it stars Googie Withers with Jack Warner and Hermione Baddeley.. The film concerns events one 1947 Sunday in Bethnal Green, a part of the East End of London that had suffered the effects of bombing and post-war deprivation. It took film critics many years to realize this was an exceptionally well made film in every way (with the exception of a hilariously inexplicably bad few seconds of special effects in the concluding scene". Wiki says "... In the decades since its release, its reputation has grown from that of an engrossing slice-of-life drama to one of the most overlooked achievements of late-1940s British cinema ... the definitive British noir ... a masterpiece of dead ends and might-have-beens, highly inventive in its use of flashbacks and multiple overlapping narratives, and brilliantly acted ... + a savory stew of London's lower class that roils with an emotional brutality and precision that most films don’t dare attempt, let alone achieve. "Rb says "This is MUST SEE for anyone thinking of moving to London's East End in the late 1940s (or earlier in that decade if they want to be bombed by Germans).