Directed by:
Basil DeardenCinematography:
Douglas SlocombeComposer:
William AlwynCast:
Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Francis De Wolff, Leslie Phillips, Sidney James, Stringer Davis (more)VOD (1)
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Matt and Jean Spenser (Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna) are financially struggling newlyweds who think their luck has changed when they receive a telegraph stating Matt has inherited a movie theater in the faraway British town of Sloughborough. Planning to sell the theater and make a pile of money in the process, they pack their bags to go see their inheritance for themselves. When they get there, they discover it's a ramshackle old theater run by a bumbling staff that seems to be as ancient as the crumbling building itself. Just when the Spensers are about to chalk up their inheritance as a loss, the doddering, old janitor/doorman (Bernard Miles) comes up with a crafty plan that will make them a mint - if all goes as planned. But nothing does in this uproarious comedy about trying to make the best of a dreadful situation - and trying again… and again… (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Virginia McKenna
UK
Best movies:
Born Free (1966)
Waterloo (1970)
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Bill Travers
UK
Best movies:
Born Free (1966)
The Browning Version (1951)
Romeo and Juliet (1954)
Margaret Rutherford
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Big Time Operators (1957)
Peter Sellers
UK
Best movies:
Bernard Miles
UK
Best movies:
Great Expectations (1946)
Big Time Operators (1957)
The Citadel (1938)
Francis De Wolff
UK
Best movies:
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Big Time Operators (1957)
Leslie Phillips
UK
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Out of Africa (1985)
Big Time Operators (1957)
Sidney James
South Africa
Best movies:
The Detective (1954)
Big Time Operators (1957)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
Stringer Davis
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Big Time Operators (1957)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Liz Fraser
UK
Best movies:
Big Time Operators (1957)
Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987) (TV movie)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Lynne Roberts
USA
Best movies:
Big Time Operators (1957)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
D.O.A. (1949)
John Pike
Best movies:
Big Time Operators (1957)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Doctor at Large (1957)
Meadows White
UK
Best movies:
Big Time Operators (1957)
The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
June Cunningham
UK
Best movies:
Big Time Operators (1957)
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)