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Sous le plus petit chapiteau du monde

Titre original : The Smallest Show on Earth
  • 1957
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 20min
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2,4 k
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Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Miles, Margaret Rutherford, and Bill Travers in Sous le plus petit chapiteau du monde (1957)
Comedy

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  • Réalisation
    • Basil Dearden
  • Scénario
    • William Rose
    • John Eldridge
  • Casting principal
    • Virginia McKenna
    • Bill Travers
    • Margaret Rutherford
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    7,0/10
    2,4 k
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Basil Dearden
    • Scénario
      • William Rose
      • John Eldridge
    • Casting principal
      • Virginia McKenna
      • Bill Travers
      • Margaret Rutherford
    • 49avis d'utilisateurs
    • 28avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Nomination aux 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 nomination au total

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    Rôles principaux55

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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
    • (non crédité)
    Terry Burton
    • The First Customer
    • (non crédité)
    John Bush
    • Cast Member
    • (non crédité)
    Ted Carroll
    Ted Carroll
    • Bijou Cinema Patron
    • (non crédité)
    Jimmy Charters
    • Bijou Cinema Patron
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Basil Dearden
    • Scénario
      • William Rose
      • John Eldridge
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    • Production, box office et plus encore chez IMDbPro

    Avis des utilisateurs49

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    8jcholguin

    Beware the inheritance from a long forgotten relative

    This film starts off with a young couple inheriting from an uncle long forgotten. An old theatre named the "Bijou" but known to the locals as the "flea pit" starts the fun. Apart from a closed decaying building, the couple also inherit three old eccentric people who are the employees of the Bijou. Not to be left out is the nefarious owner of the town's other theatre house who wants the valuable land under the Bijou for expansion. The young couple reopen the old theatre to an array of problems. You actually begin to "root" for the employees and couple to keep the old theatre going. Ingenuity is upmost in "bringing" and "keeping" paying customers. These attempts are both amusing and creative and makes this film worth watching.
    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.
    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!
    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.
    8TuckMN

    Some good laugh-out-loud scenes make this a great small film.

    A delightful story of a young couple that inherit The Bijou -- a broken down movie theater -- and against their wishes make a go of it.

    Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers play Jean and Matt -- the young couple.

    I was familiar with Ms McKenna's work but Bill Travers was new to me.

    He has a wonderful Laurence Olivier air about him and is very appealing as an actor. His only other film that I am at all familiar with was "Born Free."

    I was half way through the film before I realized that Percy Quill the projectionist with a drinking problem was Peter Sellers. Even though he was about 32 when the film was released he plays a little old man -- and superbly.

    The wonderful character actress Margaret Rutherford, who made a career out of playing Miss Marple, is absolutely enchanting as the somewhat dotty Mrs. Fazackalee.

    Why are old, somewhat crazy men in British films always named Tom? For whatever reason, Bernard Mills as Old Tom is quite a piece of work. A tendency to take things a little to literally is what drives his character -- that and the fact he is pretty much nuts.

    It seems like many British films from this period look very much like filmed plays -- which this movie very definitely did.

    Unfortunately the print that I saw for this film was in nearly as bad a shape as the movies being shown at "The Bijou." A good reason for more and better film restoration -- even for the films that we do not always think of as classics.

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    Le saviez-vous

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    • Anecdotes
      The production insurers declined to cover Dame Margaret Rutherford, so all of her scenes were squeezed into seven days.
    • Gaffes
      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.
    • Citations

      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]

    • Connexions
      Featured in A Bit of Scarlet (1997)
    • Bandes originales
      God Save the Queen
      (uncredited)

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 17 septembre 1958 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Big Time Operators
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Christchurch Avenue, Kilburn, Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(exterior of Bijou Cinema)
    • Sociétés de production
      • British Lion Films
      • Shepperton Studios
      • Hallmark Productions
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    • Durée
      1 heure 20 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White

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