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The Smallest show on earth

Comedy about a young couple who inherit a dilapidated old movie theater and the three eccentric characters who work there.

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  • "Peter Sellers"@en
  • "Big time operators"@en

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  • "Comedy about a young couple who inherit a dilapidated old movie theater and the three eccentric characters who work there."@en
  • "Comedy about a young couple who inherit a delapidated movie theater and must compete with a lavish movie theater next door."@en
  • "Comedy about a young couple who inherit a delapidated movie theater and must compete with a lavish movie theater next door."
  • "When newlyweds Matt and Jean Spencer inherit a small-town fleapit cinema from their long-lost great uncle, they get more than they expected from the eccentric and inept staff."@en
  • "Jean and Matt are a married couple with financial troubles. One day their lives are changed forever when Matt gets a telegram that says that his long-lost uncle has died and left him a movie theater in a small town."@en
  • "The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) starts with aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his "nice gel" wife Virginia McKenna inheriting a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discovering that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, which specializes in those "smash 'em in the face, knock 'em over the waterfront" pictures, but the decrepit Bijou, known locally as "the fleapit." The initial plan, set up by lawyer Leslie Phillips, is to sell off the cinema to the owner of the Grand so he can knock it down to make a car park, but our heroes are put off by the arrogant bullying of the rival manager (Francis De Wolff) and succumb to the inept charms of the crazed, aged staff--drunken projectionist Peter Sellers, doddering commissionaire Bernard Miles, and dotty ticket lady Margaret Rutherford (who joined the team as a piano accompanist). In the 1950s there was a run of gentle British comedies in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions (steam trains, tugboats, vintage cars) were saved by collections of committed eccentrics who despised the new-fangled bus services or soulless council bureaucracies and were willing to resort to a little larceny (in this case, arson). The Smallest Show slots in perfectly with the cycle, getting laughs from the Bijou's already outmoded program of scratchy Westerns and desert dramas (which increase ice cream sales) and sentiment over the staff's midnight screenings of silent movies that remind them of better days. 521 Unrated."@en
  • "Some great laugh-out-loud scenes make this a great film. The delightful story revolves around a couple that inherit a broken down movie theater - the Bijou, and attempts to make a go of it. But once the struggling couple are forced to renovate and operate it, they learn some uproarious lessons about life, love, big business and the enduring magic of the movies."
  • "Comedy about a young couple who inherit a dilapidated movie theater."@en
  • "Hilarious comedy about a young married couple who inherit a run-down movie theater along with it's wacy, equally run-down attendants."@en
  • "A couple inherit not only an old movie house, but the three people who work there as well."@en
  • "Comedy about a young couple who inherit a delapidated movie theatre and must compete with a lavish movie theatre next door."
  • ""Comedy about a young couple who inherit a dilapidated movie theater and must compete with a lavish movie theater next door." ... container."@en
  • "Struggling writer Matt Spencer and his young wife are shocked to find that he is the beneficiary of his great uncle Simon's will."@en
  • ""When their long-lost uncle dies, newlyweds Matt and Jean Spencer inherit a small-town fleapit cinema with the theatre's eccentric and inept staff. The struggling couple are forced to renovate and operate the decrepit Bijou and against the odds they work to restore it to its former glory"--Container."
  • "Comedy about a young couple who inherit a dilapidated movie theater and must compete with a lavish movie theater next door."@en

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  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Comedy films"@en
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  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Short films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
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  • "Drama"
  • "DVD-Video discs"
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  • "Videorecording"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en

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  • "The Smallest show on earth"@en
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  • "The smallest show on earth"@en
  • "Smallest show on earth"@en
  • "The smallest show on Earth"
  • "The smallest show on Earth"@en

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