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The Smallest Show on Earth (US: Big Time Operators) is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford. The screenplay was written by William Rose and John Eldridge from an original story by William Rose.
Sep 28, 2022 · The Smallest Show on Earth (US: Big Time Operators) is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Margaret Rutherford. The supporting cast includes Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Francis de Wolff, George Cross, June Cunningham and Sid James.
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Big Time Operators: Directed by Basil Dearden. With Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers. A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit", and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.
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- Comedy
- Basil Dearden
- 1958-09-17
Directed by Basil Dearden. The Funniest Show on Earth! Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill’s long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough.
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- Hallmark Productions
- Basil Dearden
When a struggling young couple receive news that they’ve inherited a movie theater from his long-lost uncle, they dream of movie palace riches. What they get is a dilapidated money pit staffed by a most curious set of eccentrics.
Sep 27, 2020 · A middle-class couple inherits a decrepit movie house in a tiny British town, along with the theater's doddering employees including perpetually drunken projectionist (Peter Sellers).
- 80 min
Show full cast and credits. A young couple inherit a cinema, but discover that showbusiness isn't all it's cracked up to be. Show full synopsis. Had it been made two years earlier, The Smallest Show on Earth might well have been an authentic Ealing comedy.
