The Small Back Room
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United Kingdom · 1949
1h 46m
Director Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Leslie Banks
Genre War, Drama, Thriller, Romance
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At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
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