The Small Back Room 1949

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Brilliant but tormented bomb expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar) works for the British government during World War II. Army captain Dick Stuart (Michael Gough) drafts him into a secret project concerning a new small land mine that German planes have been dropping over England's beaches. But despite the ministrations of his faithful assistant and girlfriend, Susan (Kathleen Byron), Rice's increasingly problematic alcoholism and a recent injury threaten his ability to work.

Cast

• David Farrar as Sammy Rice
• Kathleen Byron as Susan
• Jack Hawkins as R.B. Waring
• Leslie Banks as Colonel A.K. Holland
• Michael Gough as Captain Dick Stuart
• Cyril Cusack as Corporal Taylor
• Milton Rosmer as Professor Mair
• Walter Fitzgerald as Brine
• Emrys Jones as Joe
• Michael Goodliffe as Till
• Renée Asherson as A.T.S. corporal
• Anthony Bushell as Colonel Strang (Royal Engineers OC)
• Henry Caine as Sergeant Major Rose
• Elwyn Brook-Jones as Gladwin
• Sid James as 'Knucksie' Moran, barkeeper
• Geoffrey Keen as Pinker
• Robert Morley as the government minister, billed as "A Guest"
• Bryan Forbes, Peterson, the dying gunner.
• Bandleader Ted Heath appears, uncredited, as a bandleader.
• Patrick Macnee as a committee member (uncredited)