Powell and Pressburger

Powell and Pressburger were a British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers. They made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. They are now regarded as two of the most significant figures in British cinema.

Post-war success and decline

• Black Narcissus (1947)
• The Red Shoes (1948) --- their most commercially successful film.
• The Small Back Room (1949)
• The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
• Gone to Earth (1950). A substantially re-edited version was released in the US as The Wild Heart (1952) by coproducer David O. Selznick, after a court battle with Powell and Pressburger. The film was fully restored by the British Film Archive in 1985.
• The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)