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The Small Back Room

The Drinker Is Indisposed

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 by The Drinker

… after some minor surgery. Normal service will be resumed next week. In the meantime, here’s David Farrar nursing his bad leg in The Small Back Room (Powell/Pressburger, 1948) as barkeep Sid James looks solemn and the divine Kathleen Byron tries to persuade him to come home.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Arthur Symons Aubrey Beardsely Brendan Behan British Science Fiction Charles Dickens Christmas in London Cold War London Elizabeth Taylor Ernest Dowson Evelyn Waugh Fleet Ditch Fleet Street Francis Bacon George Orwell Gordon Riots Graham Greene Great Plague of London Hablot Knight Browne Harold Pinter James Gillray Jill Bennett John Minton John Osborne Julian Maclaren Ross Kim Philby Kingsley Amis London Cocktail Club London dystopias M.R. James Malcolm Muggeridge Martin Amis Max Beerbohm Oliver Reed Oscar Wilde Penelope Gilliatt Richard Burton Savoy Hotel Sean Connery Spike milligan The Blitz The Horseshoe Clerkenwell Close The Italian Boy Tracey Emin William Hogarth
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