The Smallest Show on Earth ~ 1957 -BW

QUICKIE: Watching a movie in this cinema will endager your life, but be the best movie you've never seen!

PLOT: Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They pack their bags and travel to Sloughborough expecting to sell the cinema to gain a huge inheritance, however, they discover the cinema is falling apart and is run by a comically incompetant staff who seem to have worked there forever. They set out with a plan to sell it but things don't quite go to plan.

SUMMARY: This is a wonderfull film by every measure. Very entertaining and some comedy that is actually funny. The crew make the defects of the cinema (like an over-active boiler, or the passing train that nearly brings the house down), coincide with scenes being shown on screen and the cinema becomes widely popular for it's "interactive" movies. Some truly funny scenes when the train pases by, shaking the whole building. Peter Sellers has a small part, yet is still good. Everything works out for a happy ending as always.

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