The Small Back Room (1949)
(Hour of Glory)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 106m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Leslie Banks, Cyril Cusack
Synopsis:
An armaments researcher working in the back rooms of a government-funded thinktank is tasked by the military with appraising a new Nazi booby device. Untainted by the bullshit around him, he is nevertheless plagued with pain from a tin leg, and nursed by a secretary who tries to steer him away from self-pity and a bottle of scotch.
Review:
Atmospheric, stylish and suspenseful psychological drama, which takes time to reveal its cards. With their self-consciously tender flourishes of technique, the Archers brought out the humane in the smallest characters while rejoicing in the high stakes of their intimate narrative. Farrar delivers a performance which makes one wonder what became of him, and Sister Ruth gets her man at last.
(Hour of Glory)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 106m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Leslie Banks, Cyril Cusack
Synopsis:
An armaments researcher working in the back rooms of a government-funded thinktank is tasked by the military with appraising a new Nazi booby device. Untainted by the bullshit around him, he is nevertheless plagued with pain from a tin leg, and nursed by a secretary who tries to steer him away from self-pity and a bottle of scotch.
Review:
Atmospheric, stylish and suspenseful psychological drama, which takes time to reveal its cards. With their self-consciously tender flourishes of technique, the Archers brought out the humane in the smallest characters while rejoicing in the high stakes of their intimate narrative. Farrar delivers a performance which makes one wonder what became of him, and Sister Ruth gets her man at last.
(Hour of Glory)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 106m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Leslie Banks, Cyril Cusack
Synopsis:
An armaments researcher working in the back rooms of a government-funded thinktank is tasked by the military with appraising a new Nazi booby device. Untainted by the bullshit around him, he is nevertheless plagued with pain from a tin leg, and nursed by a secretary who tries to steer him away from self-pity and a bottle of scotch.
Review:
Atmospheric, stylish and suspenseful psychological drama, which takes time to reveal its cards. With their self-consciously tender flourishes of technique, the Archers brought out the humane in the smallest characters while rejoicing in the high stakes of their intimate narrative. Farrar delivers a performance which makes one wonder what became of him, and Sister Ruth gets her man at last.