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      • Still, though this is a darker, quieter, more somber and sardonic piece of work than usual for the Archers, "The Small Back Room" stands alongside Powell and Pressburger's many great works as an anguished psychological wartime drama conceived and executed with characteristic cinematic passion and panache and performed to perfection by an impeccable cast.
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  1. Jun 4, 2024 · Marking the film’s 75th anniversary, StudioCanal’s 4k restoration of The Small Back Room is ravishing, timely and the tension in its finale is feverish. Directors: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller. Run Time: 106′.

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  3. Brilliant but tormented bomb expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar) works for the British government during World War II. Army captain Dick Stuart (Michael Gough) drafts him into a secret project ...

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    • Drama, War
    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
  4. May 30, 2024 · “The Small Back Room” is a gripping British film that explores the psychological impact of war, featuring outstanding performances and stunning black and white cinematography.

  5. 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. [3] It was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin.

  6. Jun 3, 2024 · A glum, perhaps cynical, claustrophobic piece of film noir shot in black-and-white, The Small Back Room was released just four years after the end of the Second World War – and it was not what postwar audiences wanted to see.

    • James Cameron-Wilson
  7. Aug 15, 2008 · Placing Sammy’s alcoholism into the redemption-ready plot, and within the urgent homefront milieu, has let The Small Back Room age better than Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend of just four years earlier, the wildly expressionist whisky nightmare notwithstanding.

  8. Jan 1, 2000 · Small Back Room, The. One of the less well-remembered Powell/Pressburger films, this is a riveting wartime drama. Gimpy bomb disposal expert David Farrar, in the role that should have made...

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