The Small World of Sammy Lee

1963

Action / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 668 668

strip club debt

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Plot summary

Soho strip club compère Sammy Lee struggles to stay one step ahead of the notorious bookie, to whom he owes £300.

Director

Ken Hughes Photo
Ken Hughes

Top cast

Roy Kinnear Photo
Roy Kinnear as Lucky Dave
Harry Landis Photo
Harry Landis as Lucky Dave's Clumsy Barman.
Kevin Brennan Photo
Kevin Brennan as Poker Player
Cyril Shaps Photo
Cyril Shaps as Maurice 'Morrie' Bellman
720p.BLU
980.41 MB
1280*738
English 2.0
Approved
us  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Anthony Newley is at the top of his

Anthony Newley is at the top of his game here as the eponymous nightclub host who is way past his best. His lame one-liners have long since stopped engaging his dwindling number of punters who now only show up for a cheap drink and a eyeful. His on stage failures are not his only worries. He couldn't pick a winner in an one-horse race and is in hock to his bookie for money he can never hope to raise, and they are not about to let him off. He is also in love - but even that's complicated with "Patsy" (Julia Foster) being embroiled in the business he shares with the odious and sleazy "Gerry" (Robert Stephens). There's a who's who of solid supporting British characters here that help depict a Soho, now long gone, that did deserve it's nickname as a square mile of vice and depravity. Wilfred Brambles, Warren Mitchell and Roy Kinnear all add a gritty richness to the poignant adaptation of his BBC play by auteur Ken Hughes and it's clear from early on that an happy ending - for anyone - is most unlikely. Hughes conveys the seediness and the ghastliness cleverly. There's virtually nothing graphic, or even especially violent - here. That's all left to our imagination and to the gradually increasing sense that "Sammy Lee" has seen his finest hour. He just has to hope it's not soon to be his last. I didn't always like the Newley brand of Londoner, but in this he delivers engagingly and I almost felt sorry for him at times!
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Reviewed by rhylcolinjones 7 / 10

The Small World Of Sammy Lee (1963)

This is a big screen version of a BBC TV play. Anthony Newley, whose string of Top 20 pop hits had just come to an end, puts in a surprisingly good performance as Sammy Lee, a strip club compère whose gambling debts land him in trouble with gangsters. Newley was a quirky actor and takes some getting used to. Always nice to see Julia Foster who plays a doting innocent, and there are memorable cameos from Warren Mitchell and Miriam Karlin as his brother and his sister-in-law. Set before strip clubs and gambling were entirely lawful, the film is in black-and-white which enhances the period atmosphere. Jazz fans may care to note that the original music is composed by tenor saxist Kenny Graham.

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