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- BFI identifier45454
- Date1949-02-21 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA research scientist achieves the heights of bravery after intense depression with a deformed foot and a quarrel by dismantling a complicated unexploded bomb. (Synopsis)
- Work historyFilming locations: Chesil Bank, Dorset, England, UK) London Film Studios, Isleworth (Middlesex, England, UK) (credited studio) Shepperton Studios, Shepperton (Surrey, England, UK) (uncredited studio) St Catherine's Chapel (Dorset, England, UK) Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain (Wiltshire, England, UK) Victoria Embankment, Westminster (London, England, UK) Worton Hall Studios, Isleworth (Middlesex, England, UK) (uncredited studio)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Michael Powell
Director: Emeric Pressburger
Production Company: Archers Film Productions
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Title
The Small Back Room (Original)
Hour of Glory (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/B3BB-F202-E46B-CE86-5A30-UCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
This work is available to view in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank.
- Collections
- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on the novel by Nigel Balchin - SCR-16275
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-45454
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-45454
Small Back Room - WWII drama. As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, an embittered bomb disposal expert [David Farrar] is called back to front line duty despite his private battle with alcoholism and depression after losing his foot. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; screenplay based on a novel by Nigel Balchin; director of photography: Christopher Challis; production design: Hein Heckroth cast: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Kathleen Byron The film garnered great critical success, with many reviewers taking time to access the Archers' output to date, including Time and Tide who commented 'Where would British films be just now without Powell and Pressburger? Precious and prolific, stylish and commercial, intelligent and popular, these two are beyond question the live-wires of the day... Greater artists we have, but not turning out pictures often enough to liven the dreary prospects on our screens. Whatever one likes or dislikes in a P&P picture, and for myself I have never liked the whole of one - at least they are never boring, ugly or banal' - MLP-1-1-60
Script and story development - MLP-1-1-60-1
Medium and small pressbooks held.
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Design: production - PD-16276
Design: production - PD-16277
Design: production - PD-16278
Design: production - PD-16279
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Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-x89
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Photograph: production - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-pgs
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-ase
view all - ArticlesSight and Sound v19 n6 June 2009 - DVD ReviewSight and Sound v18 n11 November 2008 - DVD ReviewSight and Sound v17 n8 August 2007 - Filmography, Short ArticleEdinburgh Film Festival Catalogue v59th 2005 - Credits, Reviewview all
- BooksThe small back room - 1985view all
- +The Small Back Room
Work - 45454 - 1949-02-21 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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