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The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
The Smallest Show on Earth
aka Big Time Operators
(1957)
Comedy / Romance
80 minutes
Directed by Basil Dearden
Cast:
Virginia McKenna as Jean Spenser
Bill Travers as Matt Spenser
Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Fazackalee
Peter Sellers as Percy Quill
Bernard Miles as Old Tom
Francis De Wolff as Albert Hardcastle
Leslie Phillips as Robin Carter
June Cunningham as Marlene Hogg
Sidney James as Mr. Hogg
George Cross as Commissionaire
George Cormack as Bell
Stringer Davis as Emmett
Michael Corcoran as Taxi Driver
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape out a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business, a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance. However, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetent staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.
Directors:
Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bill Travers
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