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    Big Time Operators

    Movie

    Poster of the movie Big Time Operators [1957]
    1957     Comedy    
    1h 20min
    Original titleThe Smallest Show on Earth
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    When Matt Spenser (Bill Travers) and his wife, Jean (Virginia McKenna), inherit a small cinema, the Bijou, from a distant relative, they are shocked to find a decrepit building that comes with a group of aging employees. Matt and Jean try to sell the Bijou to Albert Hardcastle (Francis De Wolff), the owner of a large nearby cinema, but he gives them a lowball offer. Instead, they decide to open the theater, using a few clever marketing schemes to gain viewers at the expense of Hardcastle.

    Directed byBasil Dearden
    Written byWilliam Rose, John Eldridge
    CompanyTimes Film CorporationTimes Film CorporationTimes Film Corporation

    Starring

    Virginia McKenna
    Margaret Rutherford
    Peter Sellers
    Leslie Phillips
    Bill Travers
    Bernard Miles
    Francis De Wolff
    June Cunningham
    Sidney James
    George Cross
    George Cormack
    Stringer Davis
    Michael Corcoran

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    Photo from the movie Big Time Operators [1957]
    Photo from the movie Big Time Operators [1957]

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