Reviews for The Small Back Room

6.5 / 10 1h 46min

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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Review by user487k4snqx1s

Very low-key....and that's good.

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Review by MysticManta

I must have a drink. Ask me to have a drink woman.

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Review by RainbowRhino

This is from a time when writers still roamed the earth

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Review by user72pdpf4qj7

Research lab politics and alcoholism

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Review by user231su0595rv

One of the finest films of the 1940s

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Review by user242kv20zynr

The Archers at their least flamboyant

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Review by GlowingGopher

Great film about mine disposal and it's effect

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Review by user819hoasyjsz

"Nobody gets medals for having brains."

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Review by user801gkp9558l

B&W character study from Powell and Pressburger

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Review by user50302q2kqtd

(crippled) Boy Meets (transcendent yet withholding) Girl

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Review by user368n5e929c9

See what the boys in the back room are brewing!

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Review by user41686zvcu8l

Powell and Pressburger - nothing more needs to be said

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Review by ShadowySalamander

"Nobody Gets Medals for Having Brains"

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Review by GoldenGiraffe

Excellent character study with tense bomb disposal plot.

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Review by AquaStar

Black and white was so much better than technicolour

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Review by GoldenGazelle

Parallel battles in war and on the home front.

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Review by CrimsonCockatoo

Flashback: WWII...Alcoholic Scientist Struggles Defusing Bombs & The Bottle

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