SKU 5774 Availability THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Writers: Nigel Balchin (novel), Michael Powell | 1 more credit ยป Stars: David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Kathleen Byron Be the first to review this product Reg. price: $13.99 On sale for: $9.99 Qty: Add to cart Email a friend Question about product? Add to wishlist DetailsExisting reviews Sammy Rice is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during the Second World War. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain from his artificial foot. The painkillers he has been prescribed are ineffective and his use of alcohol as an analgesic has led to his alcoholism. His girlfriend Susan puts up with his self-pitying, self-destructive behavior as long as she can, but finally breaks up with him, telling him that he lacks the ambition to better himself. Rice is brought in by Captain Stuart to help solve the problem of small booby-trapped explosive devices being dropped by Nazi bombers, which have killed four people, including three children. They receive some useful information from a critically wounded young soldier. Two further mines are found at Chesil Beach: they look like common thermos flasks. Stuart is first on the scene, but has difficulty getting Rice on the telephone, because Rice is alone following his breakup, angry, drunk and destructive. Rice quickly sobers up and travels to Chesil Beach only to find that Stuart tried to defuse one of the mines and has been blown up. Rice sets to work on the second mine after listening to the notes Stuart dictated to an ATS corporal during his effort earlier in the day. He discovers that the mine has two booby traps, not one. DVD-r is in English with no subtitles. Approx. 107 mins. See film sample for audio and video quality! Be the first to review this product Related products A CANTERBURY TALE (1944) $13.99 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN)... $9.99 CONTRABAND (BLACKOUT) (1940) $11.29 DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT (Suicide Squadron) (1941) $13.99 FIRES WERE STARTED (1943) + THE SILENT VILLA... $9.99 FREEDOM RADIO (1941) $13.99 FRIEDA (1947) $13.99 HALFWAY HOUSE (1944) $12.99 INSPECTOR HORNLEIGH GOES TO IT (1941) $10.99 KING AND COUNTRY (1964) + THE FIGHTING RATS O... $13.99 < > Customers who bought this item also bought CATHERINE OF RUSSIA (1963) * with switchable... $9.99 SO LITTLE TIME (1951) $9.99 ARMY OF SHADOWS (L'armée des ombres) (1969) *... $9.99 THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940) * with English and... $13.99 THE GERMANS STRIKE AGAIN (1948) * with switch... $9.99 DER GREIFER (1958) * with switchable English... $9.99 THE SPY IN BLACK (1939) $13.99 NIGHT BOAT TO DUBLIN (1946) $13.99 THE LADY IS A BIT CRACKED (A hölgy egy kissé bo... $13.99 CHEER BOYS CHEER (1939) $8.99 REMBRANDT (1936) $13.99 DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT (Suicide Squadron) (1941) $13.99 DIE GROSSE ILLUSION ( The Grand Illusion) (1937... $13.99 2 DVD SET: PETER THE FIRST (1981/86) * with... $24.99 BY THE LAW (1926) + MOTHER (1926) *with Englis... $9.99 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) + MOSKVA (1927... $13.99 WARNING SHADOWS (1923) & MAN HUNT (1941) $12.99 DIE GEZEICHNETEN (The Search) (1948) * with... $9.99 SECRET MISSION (1942) $8.99 DER GREIFER (1930) $10.99 3 DVD SET: JAN HUS; JAN ZIZKA; PROTI VSEM - TH... $25.99 QUE VIVA MEXICO (1933) * with switchable Engl... $9.99 < > Product tags hour of glory (1)