The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
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Directors
Ken Hughes
Cast
Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Miriam Karlin, Robert Stephens, Warren Mitchell, Wilfrid Brambell
The story
Sammy Lee is the striptease compère at Peepshow Club in Soho. He has five hours to pay off a £300 gambling debt, and spends the day calling in all the favours he can think of from people he knows, trying all kinds of dodgy deals to raise cash. At the same time, he has to compere the afternoon and evening sessions at the strip club.
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