The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth


Starring:Virginia Mckenna, Peter Sellers
Studio: Vidtape
Product Type: DVD

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From back cover - Some great laugh-out-loud scenes make this a great film. The delightful story revolves around a couple that inherits a broken down movie theater-the Bijou, and attempts to make a go of it. But once the struggling couple are forced to renovate and operate it, they learn some uproarius lessons about life, love, big business and the enduing magic of the movies.
Peter Sellers Collection (I'm All Right Jack/Heavens Above!/Hoffman/Two-Way Stretch/The Smallest Show on Earth/Carlton-Browne of the F.O.)
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    		Peter Sellers Collection (I'm All Right Jack/Heavens Above!/Hoffman/Two-Way Stretch/The Smallest Show on Earth/Carlton-Browne of the F.O.)
    Starring: Peter Sellers
    Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
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    ASIN: B00007AJEC
    Release Date: 2003-01-21

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    The Peter Sellers Collection includes six British comedies in which Sellers plays leading or supporting roles. The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) is among the run of gentle British comedies in the 1950s in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions were saved by collections of committed eccentrics. Aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his wife Virginia McKenna inherit a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discover that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, but the decrepit Bijou, with a drunken projectionist played by Sellers.

    In 1959's I'm All Right Jack, Sellers plays both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the trade union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations. The brothers John and Roy Boulting also directed and produced such British classics as Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959), in which Seller's unscrupulous prime minister is upstaged by Terry-Thomas as the idiot son of a great ambassador, and Heavens Above (1963), in which Sellers gives an unusually low-key performance as a young vicar whose tendencies to interpret Christian doctrines in his own individualistic way, rather than conform to church traditions, leads to all kinds of chaos.

    The great crime comedy Two Way Stretch (1960) is about imprisoned crooks who hatch a scheme to pull off a heist with a perfect alibi by breaking out, doing the job, and then breaking back in to serve out their sentences. Sellers, usually an eccentric support in these things, takes a rare lead as cocky mastermind Dodger Lane.

    Hoffman (1970) gives Sellers a lot of funny business, acid lines, and whimsical turns. Secretary Miss Smith (Sinéad Cusack) is blackmailed by meek, middle-aged Mr. Hoffman (Sellers) into spending a week of domesticity with him in his flat. At first, the tone is creepy, but it becomes more poignant as both characters learn to see each other as people.
    The Smallest Show On Earth
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      		The Smallest Show On Earth
      Starring: Stringer Davis , Francis de Wolff , Sidney James , Sam Kydd , and Virginia McKenna
      Director: Basil Dearden
      Manufacturer: Miracle Pictures
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      ASIN: B00029JZXC
      Release Date: 2002-02-02

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      From back cover - Some great laugh-out-loud scenes make this a great film. The delightful story revolves around a couple that inherits a broken down movie theater-the Bijou, and attempts to make a go of it. But once the struggling couple are forced to renovate and operate it, they learn some uproarius lessons about life, love, big business and the enduing magic of the movies.
      Smallest Show On Earth, The
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        		Smallest Show On Earth, The
        Starring: Stringer Davis , Francis de Wolff , Sidney James , Sam Kydd , and Virginia McKenna
        Director: Basil Dearden
        Manufacturer: Alpha Home Entertainment
        ProductGroup: DVD
        Binding: DVD

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        Release Date: 2007-05-29

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        A poverty stricken couple inherit a broken-down movie theatre and its comically incompetent staff.
        Comedy: Happy Go Lovely/The Smallest Show on Earth
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          		Comedy: Happy Go Lovely/The Smallest Show on Earth
          Starring: Happy Go Lovely , and Smallest Show on Earth
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          Smallest Show on Earth
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            		Smallest Show on Earth

            Manufacturer: Synergy Ent
            ProductGroup: DVD
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            ASIN: B000REWYYO
            Release Date: 2007-05-29

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            Struggling writer Matt Spenser (Bill Travers) and his wife Jean (Virginia McKenna) find themselves the owners of a cinema in a small town through an inheritance. Hoping to sell the theater for the money, they arrive to find it run-down and operated by an eccentric staff, including ticket-taker Percy Quill (Peter Sellers). Hoping to make the best of a bad situation, the couple attempts to run the cinema with comic results. Just as they are about to write off the theater as a loss, a plan is hatched by the doorman/handyman to save the business.
            Smallest Show on Earth
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              		Smallest Show on Earth
              Starring: Virginia McKenna , Bill Travers , Margaret Rutherford , Peter Sellers , and Bernard Miles
              Director: Basil Dearden
              Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
              ProductGroup: DVD
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              ASIN: B00007AJE9
              Release Date: 2003-01-21

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              An amiable knockoff of the Ealing comedy style, The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) starts with aspiring novelist Bill Travers and his "nice gel" wife Virginia McKenna inheriting a cinema from a hitherto unknown uncle and discovering that it isn't the sumptuous modern Grand, which specializes in those "smash 'em in the face, knock 'em over the waterfront" pictures, but the decrepit Bijou, known locally as "the fleapit." The initial plan, set up by lawyer Leslie Phillips, is to sell off the cinema to the owner of the Grand so he can knock it down to make a car park, but our heroes are put off by the arrogant bullying of the rival manager (Francis De Wolff) and succumb to the inept charms of the crazed, aged staff--drunken projectionist Peter Sellers, doddering commissionaire Bernard Miles, and dotty ticket lady Margaret Rutherford (who joined the team as a piano accompanist).

              In the 1950s there was a run of gentle British comedies in which outmoded and broken-down local institutions (steam trains, tugboats, vintage cars) were saved by collections of committed eccentrics who despised the new-fangled bus services or soulless council bureaucracies and were willing to resort to a little larceny (in this case, arson). The Smallest Show slots in perfectly with the cycle, getting laughs from the Bijou's already outmoded program of scratchy Westerns and desert dramas (which increase ice cream sales) and sentiment over the staff's midnight screenings of silent movies that remind them of better days. It's likeable rather than hilarious, with Sellers and Miles buried under crepe hair and fake wrinkles competing to out-dodder each other and losing the picture to the inimitable Rutherford, who doesn't have to fake her eccentricity. Pinup June Cunningham is the glamorous usherette and Sid James plays her annoyed dad. --Kim Newman
              Down Among the Z Men/Smallest Show on Earth
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                [19 Comedy Flicks] Love Laughs At Andy Hardy, My Dear Secretary, Never Wave At a WAC, Nothing Sacred, the Nasty Rabbit, New Fave, One Week, Parlor Bedroom and Bath, Smallest Show on Earth, Two Weeks to Live, Bashful Bachelor, so This Iswashington, Dreaming Out Loud, Clancy Street Boys, East Side Kids, Little Tough Guy, Spooks Run Wild, Flying Deuces, Stolen Tools
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                  		[19 Comedy Flicks] Love Laughs At Andy Hardy, My Dear Secretary, Never Wave At a WAC, Nothing Sacred, the Nasty Rabbit, New Fave, One Week, Parlor Bedroom and Bath, Smallest Show on Earth, Two Weeks to Live, Bashful Bachelor, so This Iswashington, Dreaming Out Loud, Clancy Street Boys, East Side Kids, Little Tough Guy, Spooks Run Wild, Flying Deuces, Stolen Tools

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                  DVD FEATURES: DIGITALLY MASTERED, INTERACTIVE MENUS, CHAPTER SELECTIONS, ENHANCED AUDIO 5.1
                  The Smallest Show on Earth
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                    		The Smallest Show on Earth
                    Starring: Stringer Davis , Francis de Wolff , Sidney James , Sam Kydd , and Virginia McKenna
                    Director: Basil Dearden
                    Manufacturer: Genius Entertainment
                    ProductGroup: DVD
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                    Rutherford, MargaretRutherford, Margaret | ( R ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
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                    ASIN: B0006GAON6
                    Release Date: 2004-01-01

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