It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) are two Rose credits. And among others he has Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) on his filmography.
But today we remember The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) which was described as "a considerable commercial success .... [which] is now a fondly remembered minor classic... "
According to the literature: 'Matt (Bill Travers) and Jean (Virginia McKenna) Spenser inherit the Bijou, a dilapidated cinema nicknamed 'The Fleapit', from an unknown great uncle. They travel to Sloughborough to discover that the cinema is in a terrible state, with trains thundering past and shaking the building to its foundations.'
Matt Spenser and his wife are young and still in love. He is a "struggling writer," and they dream of having enough money to travel. He and his wife are idealistic and quickly come to grasp that the three employees still working in the theatre, though old and cranky folks, spent their lives on the theater and would probably have inherited it themselves had the owner's death not been unexpected. So the new owners must concentrate on maximizing their own profit as well as securing enough money to provide for the these three. Threaded throughout the scenes is a fluffy gray and white cat. And her litter of six kittens shadows the fact the writer's wife becomes pregnant.
And Rose's great plot included roles for Margaret Rutherford and Peter Sellars.
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