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Big Time Operators
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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| Virginia McKenna | ... |
Jean Spenser
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Bill Travers | ... |
Matt Spenser
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Margaret Rutherford | ... |
Mrs. Fazackalee
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Percy Quill
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Bernard Miles | ... |
Old Tom
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Francis De Wolff | ... |
Albert Hardcastle
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Leslie Phillips | ... |
Robin Carter
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June Cunningham | ... |
Marlene Hogg
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Sid James | ... |
Mr. Hogg
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George Cross | ... |
Commissionaire
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George Cormack | ... |
Bell
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Stringer Davis | ... |
Emmett
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Michael Corcoran | ... |
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Storyline
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. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
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(Finland) See more »Also Known As:
Die kleinste Schau der Welt See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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The films shown at the Bijou (all fictional and presumably filmed just for this movie) are: - Killer Riders of Wyoming - The Mystery of Hell Valley - Comin' Thro' the Rye (Silent Movie) - Devil Riders of Parched Point See more »Goofs
Continuity: When the Spensers and Carter are in the pub after the first meeting with Hardcastle, Carter has his glass in his right hand in the first shot, but is shown using his left hand to put the glass down on to the table in the next shot. See more »Quotes
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]
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