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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.
When Matt Spenser (Bill Travers) and his wife, Jean (Virginia McKenna), inherit a small cinema, the Bijou, from a distant relative, they are shocked to find a decrepit building that...
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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.
Like many classic British comedies of the 1950s, The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) (also known as Big Time Operators) finds humor in eccentric characters waging ingenious schemes. This film is especially fun because it satirizes, and lovingly pays tribute to, the world of small-town movie theaters.
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.
Struggling writer Matt Spenser (Bill Travers) and his wife Jean (Virginia McKenna) find themselves the owners of a cinema in a small town through an inheritance.
