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Jun 14, 2024 · Far from a retread, The Small Back Room offers a distinct approach that expands on the Archers’ previous explorations of World War II-era Britain, placing an emphasis on the London home front – on the bureaucratic politics and behind-the-scenes machinations that shaped the war effort.
Jun 4, 2024 · Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 'The Small Back Room' returns to theaters in summer 2024 with a 4K restoration. Watch the trailer here.
Jun 18, 2024 · Based on Nigel Balchin’s wartime bestseller, it is set during spring 1943’s mini-Blitz, as a new sort of booby-trapped bomb needs defusing. Sammy is bitterly and painfully aware of his lost foot (one may imagine a wartime wound, but Balchin specifies illness).
Jun 8, 2024 · Kathleen Byron as Susan & David Farrar as Sammy in ‘The Small Back Room’ — Credit: StudioCanal. The film was based on a popular, critically well-regarded, though nowadays far from famous ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Testing the edges of 1940s buttoned-up Britishness, The Small Back Room has a cynical, portentous tone, despite the easy, lengthy longueurs and wry humour. The cast is excellent, especially the faintly weary Farrar.
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Jun 4, 2024 · Studiocanal’s new 4K restoration of Powell and Pressburger’s The Small Back Room, which marks the film’s 75th anniversary, premiered at the BFI Southbank on 28 May, 2024 and will be released for the first time on Blu-ray, and also on DVD and Digital on 3 June.
Jun 4, 2024 · In their classically romantic suspense thriller The Small Back Room, David Farrar stars as a bomb disposal expert Sammy Rice, embittered by a tin leg courtesy of an on-the-job snafu and battling addiction (giving Powell and Pressburger the opportunity for a bizarre DT fantasy sequence), until faced with the ultimate explosive challenge: a ...
