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The Small Back Room

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The Small Back Room is a 1943 British thriller novel by Nigel Balchin, a pioneer of the use of computers, who later became Deputy Science Adviser (Army). In 1947 it was adapted by the team of Powell and Pressburger as a film of the same title starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. Perhaps confusingly, this used the term Boffin to refer to back-room 'boys' rather than to those more like Balchin himself.

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The Small Back Room was adapted into a 1949 film.

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    The Small Back Room
    1949 · film · 106 min · dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · IMDb ↗
    IMDb7.192%

    As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

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