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The Small Back Room (1949)
A selection of studio stills (with labels & stamps on the back)
BL9/55. David Farrar and Kathleen Byron co-star in THE SMALL BACK ROOM. He plays the role of Sammy Rice, crippled backroom scientific worker, while she has the part of Susan, backroom secretary with whom he is in love.
THE SMALL BACK ROOM is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Adapted from Nigel Balchin's novel, starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. A production of The Archers for London Films.
BL9/44. "Can you show me how to divide say, 5,163 by 8?" When the Minister comes to visit the room where the backroom scientists work, he is visibly impressed by the electric calculating machine which he had never seen before. The scientists try to conceal their amusement.
THE SMALL BACK ROOM is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Adapted from Nigel Balchin's novel, starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. A production of The Archers for London Films.
DAVID FARRAR: ROBERT MORLEY: JACK HAWKINS: MILTON ROSMER:
The Army weighs in at the conference
From:
Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux Arts de Belgique
Bruxelles: 20, Rue de Musée
LESLIE BANKS
(center)
BL9/57. "Next time you just decide to go home when we're out together, I'd be obliged if you'd tell me". After Sammy Rice, crippled scientific backroom worker, and his girl friend Susan have quarrelled in the Hickory Tree nightclub over his lack of ambition, she walks out and goes back to their flat.
THE SMALL BACK ROOM is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Adapted from Nigel Balchin's novel, starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. A production of The Archers for London Films.
KATHLEEN BYRON: DAVID FARRAR; (and Snowball)
BL9/2. "You've heard of Chesil Bank? It's a strange place. Everything turns up there: sharks, silver ingots .. and now these things." Colonel Strang and Sammy Rice look down from the hill-top onto Chesil Bank, where the second German booby bomb is lying. Sammy's colleague Captain Stuart has just been blown up while attempting to dismantle the first one.
THE SMALL BACK ROOM is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Adapted from Nigel Balchin's novel, starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. A production of The Archers for London Films.
ANTHONY BUSHELL DAVID FARRAR
BL9/14. Sitting in the slit trench on Chesil Beach, Dorset, Sammy Rice stretches out his reaching rod towards the new type of German bomb lying in the shingle. His colleague Captain Stuart has just been blown up while engaged in a similar attempt. But to Sammy, a crippled back-room scientist, it is a matter of personal urgency that he should succeed.
THE SMALL BACK ROOM is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Adapted from Nigel Balchin's novel, starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. A production of The Archers for London Films.
DAVID FARRAR:
BL9/15. "I'll take three to one on science". Crippled scientist Sammy Rice has reached the last stage in dismantling a new type German booby trap which has fallen on Chesil Bank, Drset. He is unscrewing the second cap, staking his life on his deduction that the trembler is in the body of the bomb.
THE SMALL BACK ROOM is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Adapted from Nigel Balchin's novel, starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. A production of The Archers for London Films.
DAVID FARRAR:
BL9/4. "If anybody ever has any doubts about what you can do with your hands, send them along to me". Colonel Strang says good-bye to crippled scientist Sammy Rice at Abbotsbury Station. Sammy has just succeeded in dismantling a new type German booby bomb which had caused many fatal accidents, including the death of his colleague Captain Stuart.
THE SMALL BACK ROOM is written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Adapted from Nigel Balchin's novel, starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. A production of The Archers for London Films.
DAVID FARRAR: ANTHONY BUSHELL:
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