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- A gripping race against the clock through the seedy streets of Soho ensues with Anthony Newley giving a restless and vital performance as Sammy: compère for a backstreet strip joint and inveterate gambler and horse player.
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Among the many hit songs Newley wrote for others are " Goldfinger " (the title song of the James Bond film, Goldfinger, music by John Barry), and " Feeling Good ", which became a hit for Nina Simone and the rock band Muse, as well as a signature song for singer Michael Bublé.
Nov 8, 2016 · Sammy Lee (Anthony Newley) is the compère of a sleazy Soho strip club whose gambling debts have far exceeded what he can afford. When a bookie sends two heavies to take care of the matter, Sammy manages to persuade them to give him five hours to raise the money.
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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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- Drama
- Ken Hughes
- 1963-04
Samuel Leeman (Anthony Newley) – who goes by the name Sammy Lee – is the comic MC at a seedy Soho strip joint called The Peepshow Club who is constantly struggling to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money – all the time digging himself deeper and deeper into trouble.
Oct 10, 2016 · The vibrant, down and dirty Soho of the 1960s lives on in British classic The Small World of Sammy Lee, featuring Bowie-inspiring actor and singer Anthony Newley as a strip-club compère.
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. [3] 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 ...
THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE is a grim and gritty British character drama following a single day in the life of the titular character, a wiseguy and raconteur - as well as compere of a seedy strip club - played well by Anthony Newley.
