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The Small World of Sammy Lee is a 1963 British black-and-white comedy-drama crime film written and directed by Ken Hughes and starring Anthony Newley, Julia Foster and Robert Stephens. The film was based on the 1958 BBC TV one-character television play Sammy , also directed by Hughes and starring Newley, [4] described by Variety as "a masterful piece of work."
The Small World of Sammy Lee: Directed by Ken Hughes. With Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell. The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
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- Ken Hughes
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The Small World of Sammy Lee (1962) Seedy Soho strip-club compere Sammy (Anthony Newley) races to escape the heavies who hunt him in this gritty, engrossing 1960s London thriller. Rent on BFI Player £3.50. Snappy, jazzy, gripping, cynical and stylish, this engrossing, fast-paced, location-shot London thriller, energetically scripted and ...
Nov 8, 2016 · Newley’s wide-ranging talent is immediately clear in The Small World of Sammy Lee as he slips effortlessly between the roles of desperate man and hack comedian, jumping on and off stage as he attempts to keep a grip on his job and his health. Newley makes Sammy both likeable and loathsome, an opportunistic but basically sympathetic man whose attempts to protect wide-eyed young hopeful Julia ...
- Andy Goulding
Adapted from Hughes’ BBC play, the film follows Sammy ‘Lee’ Leeman (Anthony Newley), who with five hours to spare attempts to raise the cash to pay off a debt to a gangster. In a similar vein to other British films of the sixties, among them Robert Wise’s The Haunting, Bryan Forbes’ Séance On A Wet Afternoon and John Schlesinger’s ...
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Rent for £3.50. Overview Overview. Snappy, jazzy, gripping, cynical and stylish, this engrossing, fast-paced, location-shot London thriller, energetically scripted and directed with dark, downbeat panache by the gifted Ken Hughes, is atmospherically played out on the shadowy, seamy streets of 1960s Soho. It follows small-time wide-boy and ...
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