- 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)
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- 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)
- Related Materials
- Articlesbook - Nigel BALCHIN
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Great Britain [book subject]
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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
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