rare glimpse of rara avis Kathleen Byron (with David Farrar) in (sadly the cut version) of Powell & Pressburger's The Small Back Room (1949) the other night. Her performance as Sister Ruth in "Black Narcissus" a great example of how a performance can deepen a filmmaker's conception to the point of overthrow--you can tell P&P didn't know what they'd unleashed, but were smart enough to go with it.