72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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The Small Back Room

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
     106 m.
Synopsis
Sammy Rice is a crippled scientist specializing in artillery and bomb fuses, embittered by his disability and resentful of the politicking between civilian and military big-wigs that surrounds his work. Not only that, but his overbearing boss R.B. Waring makes confident passes at Susan, with whom Sammy is in love. Sammy's obsessive quest to understand a new German bomb is intertwined with his tortured love for Susan.
Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Screenplay
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Photography
Christopher Challis
Edition
Clifford Turner
Music
Brian Easdale
Cast
Michael Gough (Capt. Stuart), David Farrar (Sammy Rice), Jack Hawkins (R. B. Waring), Cyril Cusack (Corp. Taylor), Kathleen Byron (Susan), Michael Powell (Gunnery officer)
Running Time
106 m.
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