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Release Date: 1949

Cast: Cyril Cusack, Michael Gough, David Farrar, June Elvin, Sid James, Geoffrey Keen, David Hutcheson, Michael Goodliffe, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Kathleen Byron, Leslie Banks ...MORE

Cast: Cyril Cusack, Michael Gough, David Farrar, June Elvin, Sid James, Geoffrey Keen, David Hutcheson, Michael Goodliffe, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Kathleen Byron, Leslie Banks, Emrys Jones ...LESS

Categories: Movies, War film, Black-and-white, Film adaptation

The Small Back Room (1949) is a 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 novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin. In the United States, the film was released as Hour of Glory. Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain from... MORE

The Small Back Room (1949) is a 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 novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin. In the United States, the film was released as Hour of Glory. Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain from his artificial foot. The painkillers he has been prescribed are ineffective, and his use of alcohol as an analgesic has led to his alcoholism. His girlfriend Susan (Kathleen Byron) puts up with his self-pitying, self-destructive behaviour as long as she can, but finally breaks up with him, telling him that he lacks the ambition to better himself. Rice is brought in by Captain Stuart (Michael Gough) to help solve the problem of small booby-trapped explosive devices being dropped by Nazi bombers, which have killed four people, including three children. They receive some useful information from a LESS