The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

Directors

Basil Dearden

Cast

Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles

The story

Matt and Jean Spenser are a young married couple with dreams of travelling to exotic destinations such as Samarkand, though they cannot afford it. Their prospects seem to improve when Matt inherits a cinema from his great-uncle. Expecting to acquire the modern and prosperous "Grand" cinema, they are dismayed to learn from Robin, the solicitor, that the legacy is instead the decrepit "Bijou Kinema", known locally as "the Fleapit".

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