The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
(Big Time Operators)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff
Synopsis:
A pair of newly-weds inherit an old cinema in the shadow of a railway line, and turn the fleapit and its superannuated staff into a going concern.
Review:
One of those tales of obstacles overcome which demands a tolerant suspension of disbelief; however, so freighted is it with every viewer's nostalgia for their childhood picturegoing days, and such a splendid cast of eccentrics has it, that, like the hapless couple who just want to get to Samarkand for their honeymoon, one cannot help get dewy-eyed about it.
(Big Time Operators)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff
Synopsis:
A pair of newly-weds inherit an old cinema in the shadow of a railway line, and turn the fleapit and its superannuated staff into a going concern.
Review:
One of those tales of obstacles overcome which demands a tolerant suspension of disbelief; however, so freighted is it with every viewer's nostalgia for their childhood picturegoing days, and such a splendid cast of eccentrics has it, that, like the hapless couple who just want to get to Samarkand for their honeymoon, one cannot help get dewy-eyed about it.
(Big Time Operators)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff
Synopsis:
A pair of newly-weds inherit an old cinema in the shadow of a railway line, and turn the fleapit and its superannuated staff into a going concern.
Review:
One of those tales of obstacles overcome which demands a tolerant suspension of disbelief; however, so freighted is it with every viewer's nostalgia for their childhood picturegoing days, and such a splendid cast of eccentrics has it, that, like the hapless couple who just want to get to Samarkand for their honeymoon, one cannot help get dewy-eyed about it.