Sammy, a scientist working with a specialist "back room" team during WW2 is brought in to solve the problem of booby-trapped devices being dropped by Nazi bombers
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The Small Back Room
Nigel Balchin
26 April 2008
Made into a Powell and Pressburger film in 1948 from an equally popular book by Nigel Balchin – this is a tense wartime thriller about the back room boys and their sterling war efforts.
Sammy Rice is a British back-room boy. He and a couple of other scientists work tightly together to test inventions that might prove useful in the war against Germany. When Rice is asked to help another department investigate the workings of a new rash of enemy bombs he's happy to assist, but his greatest problem turns out to be the battle with inter-departmental bureaucracy rather than scary Nazi technology. Damian Lewis as Sammy explodes with invective ire at his superiors and you can feel his internal combustion hitting danger level when he is finally faced with a real bomb to defuse. This thriller is as taut as a stretched wire - and one that hasn't been earthed, at that.
Holland/Brine ...... Paul Jesson
Sammy ...... Damian Lewis
Tilly ...... Dominc Rowan
Waring ...... Nick Rowe
Sue ...... Rebecca Saire
Mair ...... Christopher Benjamin
Stuart ...... Will Keen
Joe ...... Stuart Laing
Pinker/Strang ...... Sean Baker
Producer Clive Brill.
This should be interesting. I read the novel some years ago and liked it a lot.