A World War II veteran, crippled in action, is frustrated by his infirmity and the mindless bureacracy of government.

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 1.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Charles Barr, Film Scholar
Interviews: Chris Challis, Cinematographer
Featurette: Excerpts from Michael Powell's Audio Dictations for His Autobiography
Text/Photo Galleries:
Essay: Nick James, Film Scholar

Distributor Notes: After the lavish Technicolor spectacle of The Red Shoes, British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger retreated into the inward, shadowy recesses of this moody, crackling character study. Based on the acclaimed novel by Nigel Balchin, The Small Back Room details the professional and personal travails of troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar), who, while struggling with a complex relationship with secretary-girlfriend Susan (Kathleen Byron), is hired by the government to advise on a dangerous new German weapon. Frank and intimate, deftly mixing suspense and romance, The Small Back Room is an atmospheric, post-World War II gem.

Source: Image Entertainment, Inc.

Leslie Banks: British Actor
Jack Hawkins: British Actor
David Farrar: British Actor
Kathleen Byron: British Actress

Emeric Pressburger: Producer/Writer/Director
M. Powell: 

"[T]his atmospheric and very English noir is ripe for reappraisal. Capturing beautifully the brown-windsor-soup and backstabbing bureaucracy of WWII Whitehall..."