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The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory) is a 1949 film by the British producer-writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack. It was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin.
Plot
Sammy Rice is a British scientist in a London "back room" team evaluating new weapons during the Second World War. Their work is constantly frustrated by bureaucrats and poor management.
More details
| author | Michael Powell |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell |
| editor | Clifford Turner |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | army colonel back room boffin booby trap drown enhance hear meet political turmoil poor man prosthesis prosthetic foot scientific research second world war wait world war world war ii |
| musicBy | Brian Easdale |
| producer | Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell |
| publisher | British Lion Films |
| theme | romantic drama |