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Lakeshore Classic Movies
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Season 2023
Episode 67
A middle-class couple inherits a decrepit movie house in a tiny British town, along with the theater's doddering employees including perpetually drunken projectionist (Peter Sellers).
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1:12:59
U.S. Army engineer (Sterling Hayden) tries to finish railroad before the Civil War starts.
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1:41:22
Shakespearean actor (Vincent Price) seeks revenge against his critics in 70’s gorefest.
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59:43
Seymour Hicks is the world’s most well-known miser in Dickens’s classic Christmas tale.
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1:04:24
An innocent stranger in town gets caught up in a bank robbery and becomes a fugitive.
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1:31:18
Boxer goes on the run after he believes he killed a man, and a police detective follows.
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1:19:02
Family comedy about a doting father who learns his newlywed daughter is expecting a baby.
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1:27:25
Follows the boxer's rise from a poor background to become the world heavyweight champion.
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1:16:36
Robinson struggles to maintain dignity trying to break organized baseball’s color barrier.
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1:22:24
In 1888 London, landlady begins to suspect that her new lodger could be “Jack the Ripper”.
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1:16:14
Couple tries to adopt a baby, but the head of the agency senses man is keeping a secret.
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1:29:19
Humphrey Bogart and gang are trying to get a vast fortune of uranium out of East Africa.
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1:20:46
Charles Laughton must outwit his cutthroat crew, as well as top gunner Randolph Scott.