The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room (1949) starring David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Kathleen Byron. Munitions expert Sammy Rice (Farrar) battles crippling injury, bureaucracy during World War II. The Germans are dropping a new kind of weapon on England, and meanwhile Rice is fighting the temptation to drink his pain away. After his girlfriend Susan (Byron) leaves him, he is called to disassemble one of the new devices in the field. This is really a pretty standard World War II movie, except for one scene where Rice wrestles with the desire to take a drink. The disc has English subtitles for the hearing impaired. Grade: B