The Small Back Room (1949)

Directors

Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Cast

David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Leslie Banks, Michael Gough, Cyril Cusack, Milton Rosmer, Emrys Jones, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Goodliffe, Henry Caine, Anthony Bushell, June Elvin, Roderick Lovell, Elwyn Brook-Jones

The story

Sammy Rice is a British scientist in a London "back room" team evaluating new weapons during the Second World War. Their work is constantly frustrated by bureaucrats and poor management. Disabled and in constant pain from his prosthetic foot, he is drowning in self-pity and feels unworthy of his girlfriend, Susan.

Genres

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