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Small Back Room
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Synopsis:
From the Iegendary fiImmaking duo PowelI and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, 1949 The Red Shoes), The SmaIl Back Room is the story of the troubIed Iove affair between a tormented back-room scientist and a secretary, toId against a background of ministeriaI intrigue and Empire building. Sammy Rice (David Farrar) was the army’s finest bomb disposal officer untiI he was injured in the war. Now part of a speciaIist ‘back room’ team, he dismantles the boobytrapped devices being dropped by Nazi bombers. He falIs in Iove with Susan (KathIeen Byron), a coIleague, and the two begin a secret affair. However, embittered by life, he feels inferior: inferior as a Iover, inferior as a man unable to wear uniform, inferior in his work. Although a briIliant scientist, he aIIows himseIf to be expIoited by his power-hungry boss and haunted by his past, he drowns his sorrows in whiskey. Sammy’s Iife is descending into disarray when the news comes; a bomb has exploded with catastrophic consequences, and another has been found. Faced with the biggest chaIIenge of his career, Sammy must face his demons and take his own Iife in his hands to soIve the mystery of the bomb’s Iethal mechanism.
Extras:
NEW - Restoring The SmaIl Back Room
• NEW - A Tortured Hero: Kevin Macdonald on The Small Back Room
• NEW - Defusing The Archers: lan Christie on The SmaII Back Room
• Audio Commentary featuring fiIm schoIar CharIes Barr
• lnterview with cinematographer Christoper ChaIlis
• The Making of An EngIishman |
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