The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

Basil Dearden · 83 min · Letterboxd ↗

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

The Smallest Show on Earth screens once in London: The Cinema Museum, Monday 14 December at 19:30.