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The Smallest Show on Earth

1957

Action / Comedy

The Smallest Show on Earth

1957

Action / Comedy

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69% AUDIENCE · 500 ratings

6.9/10 · 2.6K

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eccentric inheritance black and white projectionist run down building

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Plot summary

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. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

Director

Basil Dearden

Top cast

Stringer Davis as Fred Emmett

Liz Fraser as Girl in Cinema

Jimmy Charters as Bijou Cinema Patron

Francis De Wolff as Albert Hardcastle

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

696.03 MB

1204*720

English 2.0

Passed

Subtitles

24 fps

1 hr 20 min

Seeds 1

1.24 GB

1792*1072

English 2.0

Passed

Subtitles

24 fps

1 hr 20 min

Seeds 5

Comments 3

tcountry62719722 2530 days ago

This is the best print I've ever seen of this film. It's AWESOME!!!!! Thanks Freeman for uploading it. It's a British Classic!!!!!!!!!

johnnyalphauk 2530 days ago

A classic, British 1950s film - a great afternoon watch... if you're looking for contemporary Hollywood blockbusters with lots of explosions and shit scripts - this WON'T be for you!!! Thanks for the upload - brilliant!

hudsonrobert49 2530 days ago

Great film

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7 / 10

If only I had a great-uncle “Simon” who

CinemaSerf

If only I had a great-uncle “Simon” who would die (peacefully, of course) and leave me a cinema! Well that’s what “Jean” (Virginia McKenna) and “Matt” (Bill…

If only I had a great-uncle “Simon” who would die (peacefully, of course) and leave me a cinema! Well that’s what “Jean” (Virginia McKenna) and “Matt” (Bill Travers) are bequeathed and so off the set to “Sloughborough” to take a look at their inheritance. Their hopes are high when the cabbie tells them the only cinema in town is the aptly named “Grand” but their dreams are soon dashed by solicitor “Robin” (Leslie Phillips) who takes them to a ramshackle old building two foot from the mainline railway. Their first instinct is to sell the thing, and their lawyer mentions that might just be possible: to “Hardcastle” (Francis De Wolff) who just happens to own the other cinema, and who needs an access road for his car park. Thing is, this man is quite shrewd and so drastically reduces his offer by 90%! “Robin” suggests the best way to get that price back up is to convince “Hardcastle” that they are going to reopen the place as a going concern. Now that’s going to be quite a challenge, but they do have the formidable “Miss Fazackalee” (Margaret Rutherford) running the place, dipso projectionist “Bill” (Peter Sellers) and curmudgeonly commissionaire “Old Tom” (Bernard Miles) so what can possibly go wrong? Margaret Rutherford is a bit like Charles Laughton in my book - she can do no wrong, and she doesn’t here, either. Though only sparingly used she serves as an amiable lynchpin for the personable characters to exude a charming sentimentality for days gone by. Days when an “electric picture theatre” was an innovation with queues outside the doors afternoons and evenings alike. Indeed, there is one touching scene here with the three old retainers enjoying a silent film, complete with Rutherford at the piano, wallowing in a comforting degree of nostalgia. If anything, this has become even more of a pleasing reminder of the great days of cinema as sixty years have passed since it was made and in those days buildings like this have passed from cinemas to bingo halls to car parks, or blocks of flats. Travers and McKenna work well together and it’s nice, for a change, to see Phillips in a less comedic role too as the final scene leaves us with something predictable. Then again, perhaps not! Cynics needn’t bother, but I really liked this.

7 / 10

What if you were informed that you've just

barrymost

What if you were informed that you've just inherited your late uncle's "fortune" and then you found out that this "fortune" was, in reality, just an old…

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