‘The Small Back Room’: Finding Purpose Amid Pervasive Pointlessness

Filmmakers Michael Power and Emeric Pressburger tell a compelling story of a man stepping up.

Sammy Rice (David Farrar, C) and colleagues, in "Small Backroom." British Lions Films

NR | 1h 46min | Drama | 1952

Michael Powell once said that his film with fellow writer-director Emeric Pressburger, set in World War II Britain, is about “a dying man who discovers a reason to live.”