The Small Back Room 1948 Novel

A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned he struggles with a drink problem at home and politics and petty pride at work. The fantasy enriched near operatic technicolor dramas for which director writer producer collaborators michael powell and emeric pressburger are perhaps best known such as the life and death of colonel blimp 1943 a matter of life and death 1946 black narcissus 1947 and the red shoes 1948 sit in luxuriant contrast to the small back room 1949 their piquant black and white. The small back room released in the united states as hour of glory is a 1949 film by the british producer writer director team of michael powell and emeric pressburger starring david farrar and kathleen byron and featuring jack hawkins and cyril cusack it was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by nigel balchin.