Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) - (1949) - (Movie Clip) I Never Nurs'd A Dear Gazelle

Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Highland Clan

Already well into the scene, disabled alcoholic weapons expert Sammy (David Farrar), believing he’s been abandoned by girlfriend Susan (Kathleen Bryon), struggles with his medicine and especially the bottle they’ve been “saving for V-Day,” writer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger taking it abstract, in Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room), 1949.

Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Fired At A Tank?

Not far from London, at Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge, a plausible site for a weapons-testing range, Leslie Banks as Col. Holland, expressing unhappiness with the new gun to expert Sammy (David Farrar), in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room), 1949.

Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Bit Hush-Hush

Second scene introduces David Farrar as the protagonist, weapons expert Sammy in London, 1943, Kathleen Byron as Susan, secretary for his unit, Michael Gough the officer seeking his help, Sid James the barkeep, early in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room), 1949.