The Small Back Room
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| The Small Back Room | |
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 Susan and Sammy |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Written by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring | David Farrar Kathleen Byron Jack Hawkins |
| Music by | Brian Easdale |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Editing by | Clifford Turner |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films |
| Release date(s) | February 21, 1949 UK |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Small Back Room (1949) is a film by the British producer-writer-director team of Powell & Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. It was based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin. In the USA the film was released as Hour of Glory.
[edit] Story
Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a scientist working with a specialist "back room" team during World War II. He is brought in to solve the problem of booby-trapped devices being dropped from Nazi bombers. But Sammy and his girl-friend Susan (Kathleen Byron) have to overcome some problems with bureaucracy as well as the pills and booze that Sammy takes to control the pain caused by his artificial foot.
[edit] External links
- The Small Back Room at the Internet Movie Database
- Black Narcissus at the BFI's Screenonline. Full synopsis and film stills (and clips viewable from UK libraries).
- The Small Back Room reviews and articles at the Powell & Pressburger Pages
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Powell and Pressburger The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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| 1930s | The Spy in Black | The Lion Has Wings |
| 1940s | Contraband | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Forty-Ninth Parallel | One of Our Aircraft is Missing | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | The Volunteer | A Canterbury Tale | I Know Where I'm Going! | A Matter of Life and Death | Black Narcissus | The Red Shoes | The Small Back Room |
| 1950s | The Elusive Pimpernel | Gone to Earth | The Tales of Hoffmann | Oh... Rosalinda!! | The Battle of the River Plate | Ill Met by Moonlight |
| 1960s | Peeping Tom (not Pressburger) | They're a Weird Mob | Age of Consent |
| 1970s | The Boy Who Turned Yellow |
