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The Smallest Show on Earth

  • 1957
  • Approved
  • 1h 20min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
7.0/10
2.4 k
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Miles, Margaret Rutherford, and Bill Travers in The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Comedy

Una joven pareja hereda un cine, con todas sus deudas y trabajadores seniles.Una joven pareja hereda un cine, con todas sus deudas y trabajadores seniles.Una joven pareja hereda un cine, con todas sus deudas y trabajadores seniles.

  • Dirección
    • Basil Dearden
  • Guionistas
    • William Rose
    • John Eldridge
  • Elenco
    • Virginia McKenna
    • Bill Travers
    • Margaret Rutherford
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    7.0/10
    2.4 k
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Basil Dearden
    • Guionistas
      • William Rose
      • John Eldridge
    • Elenco
      • Virginia McKenna
      • Bill Travers
      • Margaret Rutherford
    • 49Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 28Opiniones de los críticos
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
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    • Nominada a1 premio BAFTA
      • 1 nominación en total

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    Elenco principal55

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    Virginia McKenna
    Virginia McKenna
    • Jean Spenser
    Bill Travers
    Bill Travers
    • Matt Spenser
    Margaret Rutherford
    Margaret Rutherford
    • Mrs. Fazackalee
    Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers
    • Percy Quill
    Bernard Miles
    Bernard Miles
    • Old Tom
    Francis De Wolff
    Francis De Wolff
    • Albert Hardcastle
    • (as Francis de Wolff)
    Leslie Phillips
    Leslie Phillips
    • Robin Carter
    June Cunningham
    June Cunningham
    • Marlene Hogg
    Sidney James
    Sidney James
    • Mr. Hogg
    George Cross
    • Commissionaire
    George Cormack
    George Cormack
    • Sam Bell
    Stringer Davis
    • Fred Emmett
    Michael Corcoran
    • Taxi Driver
    The Blake Twins
    • Cast Members
    • (sin créditos)
    Terry Burton
    • The First Customer
    • (sin créditos)
    John Bush
    • Cast Member
    • (sin créditos)
    Ted Carroll
    Ted Carroll
    • Bijou Cinema Patron
    • (sin créditos)
    Jimmy Charters
    • Bijou Cinema Patron
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Basil Dearden
    • Guionistas
      • William Rose
      • John Eldridge
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    Opiniones de usuarios49

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    8shih_tzu

    How it used to be in the movie business in the old days

    This film is one of my favourites because fifty years ago I was a young projectionists in a small cinema in the East Midlands, England. My future wife, was also a projectionist there (this was just after World War II, and the men were still away in the forces) and was where we met. I later became a movie house manager for several years before leaving the business with the advent of TV. Although it was hilarious the film hit the nail on the head with many home truths. The projectionist and the cashier were always rivals and vied for positions of authority. I knew many projectionists who were fond of the bottle. The way the show was kept running in all adversities was also typical of real life in a small "flea pit". A great film of days that used to be ! Incidentally my wife and I celebrated our golden wedding two years ago, and we did our courting at the movies on our days off.
    7didi-5

    a warm and wonderful little movie

    Imagine inheriting an entire estate and finding it consists of a run-down fleapit cinema just under a railway line! That's exactly what happens to Matt and Jean Spencer (Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna)when they receive a letter from the solicitor dealing with a long-forgotten great-uncle's estate.

    With the beautiful and bizarre Bijou cinema taking centre stage, and its three odd employees (the wonderful Margaret Rutherford as Mrs Fazackalee; Peter Sellers as drunken projectionist Quill; and Bernard Miles as daft doorman Old Tom) livening up the proceedings with their eccentricity, the stage is set for a British movie with a warm heart and a genuine love of the silver screen.

    With Leslie Phillips as solicitor Robin, Francis de Wolff as the rival cinema owner Hardcastle, and Sid James as one of his trademark wideboy characters, this film is a treat from beginning to end. Of particular note is the scene where the three long-term Bijou workers watch silent films when the audience has gone home - magical!
    8captainpat

    A rare treat

    I saw this film on DVD. It was part of a package of 50 old films - it hadn't been restored and appeared much older than its 50 years. I had trouble reading the titles and credits.

    What ever happened to all those old cinemas? This is one of them. In one scene the projectionist is having a horrid time and the film burns causing a "melt" before the audience. I experienced this at a local theatre in Papua New Guinea and it took me right back. And how the audience would tolerate it. Well sort of.

    The scene where the three old codgers watch a silent film is very touching. In fact, I thought this would surface again in the film but it didn't.

    It was delightful. The ending is not your stereotypical Hollywood film that we accept as the norm.

    If you can get this film - it is well worth the watch.
    10Hup234!

    A must-see film for those who love film.

    Who hasn't seen a forlorn, forgotten little neighborhood theatre and fantasized about reopening it, and making it work? For Jean and Matt, though, who have no options after starting over in a strange city, it becomes a necessity. The hopeless crusade becomes the kind of poignant-yet-hilarious stuff that makes for an unforgettable film. Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers and Bernard Miles, as the former staff members recalled from retirement, have a magical scene together in the Bijou's darkened auditorium one night after closing time, recalling the old days with a silent film and the disused piano. Great stuff. I only wish the film was longer.
    10Sylvester

    A comedy which is truer to life than some may imagine.

    The younger generation of filmgoers, used to the antiseptic cleanliness of the multiplexes, may not realise that "fleapits" like the Bijou in "The Smallest Show On Earth" did actually exist in post-war Britain. Starved of resources during the war and with restrictions on non-essential building in force until the mid fifties, many small cinemas were in a very sorry state with broken seats, threadbare carpets, antiquated projection equipment and even torn and patched screens.

    It is against this background that this charming comedy is set with wonderfully eccentric characters played by Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford and Bernard Miles.

    The principal character is, however, the Bijou itself. This was a set, the exterior having been temporarily constructed between two railway bridges in Kilburn, a London suburb. The rival cinema, the Grand, was, in fact, a real cinema - the Gaumont at Hammersmith, also a London suburb. If you look closely, it is possible to see that the new name is rather clumsily superimposed.

    To someone brought up in the fifties, this film brings back fond memories. To the younger viewers it gives an intriguing glimpse into the past by showing a way of life gone forever.

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    • Trivia
      The production insurers declined to cover Dame Margaret Rutherford, so all of her scenes were squeezed into seven days.
    • Errores
      When the young couple arrive in "Sloughborough", in the north of England, they climb out of the taxi in front of Hammersmith underground station in London.
    • Citas

      Hardcastle: A nice young couple like yourself, you've no business in this business. If you'd seen your great uncle what it did for him in the end! That old battle-ax Mrs. Fazackalee! I remember when she was a wee slip of a thing, pretty as a picture - a "B" picture, mind yuh!

      [laughs]

    • Conexiones
      Featured in A Bit of Scarlet (1997)
    • Bandas sonoras
      God Save the Queen
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    Detalles

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 17 de septiembre de 1958 (Francia)
    • País de origen
      • Reino Unido
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Big Time Operators
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Christchurch Avenue, Kilburn, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(exterior of Bijou Cinema)
    • Productoras
      • British Lion Films
      • Shepperton Studios
      • Hallmark Productions
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 20 minutos
    • Color
      • Black and White

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