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The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

Director: Basil Dearden

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From Time Out Film Guide

A delightfully eccentric comedy, with Travers and McKenna inheriting a fleapit cinema called The Bijou, and fighting a takeover by the owners of The Grand, which 'conveniently' burns down. An Ealing-style allegory of English resolve, scripted by William Rose and John Eldridge, it's memorable chiefly for Sellers' drunken old projectionist, clinging to his machines whenever a train goes by, and Rutherford's belligerent cashier.

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Cast & crew

Director: Basil Dearden

Producer: Michael Relph

Cast: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips, Sidney James full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 81 mins


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