Movie: "The Smallest Show on Earth"
| Release Date: | Apr 1957 |
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| Genre: | Comedy |
| Awards | Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. |
| Runtime: | 80 min. |
| Cast: | Virginia McKenna (Jean Spenser) Bill Travers (Matt Spenser) Margaret Rutherford (Mrs. Fazackalee) Peter Sellers (Leslie Quill) Bernard Miles (Old Tom) Francis De Wolff (Albert Hardcastle) Leslie Phillips (Robin Carter) June Cunningham (Marlene Hogg) Sid James (Mr. Hogg (as Sidney James)) George Cross (Commissionaire) George Cormack (Bell) Stringer Davis (Emmett) Michael Corcoran (Taxi Driver) John Bush (Cast member (uncredited)) Marian Collins (Ice-Cream Girl (uncredited)) Liz Fraser (Girl in cinema (uncredited)) Frazer Hines (Cast member (uncredited)) Billy Lawrence (Cast member (uncredited)) John Pike (Cast member (uncredited)) Lynne Roberts (Cast member (uncredited)) Michael Scoble (Cast member (uncredited)) Leslie Slysz (Cast member (uncredited)) |
Storyline: Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape 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 incompetant 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.
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