The Smallest Show on Earth ( Big Time Operators )

The Smallest Show on Earth (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Big Time Operators
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Basil Dearden

Written By:
William Rose
John Eldridge

Actors:
Virginia McKenna ..... Jean Spenser
Bill Travers ..... Matt Spenser
Margaret Rutherford ..... Mrs. Fazackalee
Peter Sellers ..... Percy Quill
Bernard Miles ..... Old Tom
Francis De Wolff ..... Albert Hardcastle
Leslie Phillips ..... Robin Carter
June Cunningham ..... Marlene Hogg
Sidney James ..... Mr. Hogg
George Cross ..... Commissionaire
George Cormack ..... Bell
Stringer Davis ..... Emmett
Michael Corcoran ..... Taxi Driver

Synopsis:

Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetant staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.

A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed 'The Flea Pit,' and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.

A young couple inherit an old dilapidated cinema in a small English town and work against the odds to restore it to its former glory.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 20 April, 2015.