Die kleinste Schau der Welt

Originaltitel: The Smallest Show on Earth

1957
12
1 Std. 20 Min.

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Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Miles, Margaret Rutherford, and Bill Travers in Die kleinste Schau der Welt (1957)

Ein junges Paar erbt ein verschuldetes altes Kino mit dem passenden Spitznamen "The Flea Pit" und die drei exzentrischen Senioren, die dort arbeiten.Ein junges Paar erbt ein verschuldetes altes Kino mit dem passenden Spitznamen "The Flea Pit" und die drei exzentrischen Senioren, die dort arbeiten.Ein junges Paar erbt ein verschuldetes altes Kino mit dem passenden Spitznamen "The Flea Pit" und die drei exzentrischen Senioren, die dort arbeiten.

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Nominiert für 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

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8/10

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.

captainpat
25. Feb. 2006
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The production insurers declined to cover Dame Margaret Rutherford, so all of her scenes were squeezed into seven days.

Patzer
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.

Zitate
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]