The Small Back Room 1948 Novel

The small back room released in the united states as 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.

The small back room 1948 novel.

Powell made the small back room just after the red shoes and was clearly looking for a homely manageable subject after the lavish ambitions of the earlier film. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned he struggles with a drink problem at home and politics and petty pride at work. With david farrar jack hawkins kathleen byron leslie banks. Directed by michael powell emeric pressburger.

Sammy rice is a weapons scientist one of the back room boys of the second world war. He found it in nigel balchin s. As the germans drop explosive booby traps on britain in 1943 the embittered expert who ll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.