The Small World of Sammy Lee
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.
Plot
Sammy Lee is the striptease compère at Peepshow Club in Soho. He has five hours to pay off a £300 gambling debt, and spends the day calling in all the favours he can think of from people he knows, trying all kinds of dodgy deals to raise cash. At the same time he has to compere the afternoon and evening sessions at the strip club. Patsy, a girl he knows from Bradford, turns up, and does everything she can to help him, including doing a turn as a stripper.
More details
| author | Ken Hughes |
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| contentLocation | London |
| director | Ken Hughes |
| editor | Henry Richardson |
| genre | comedy-drama crime |
| keywords | beat change of heart even gambling debt strip club wait |
| musicBy | Kenny Graham |
| producer | Alec C. Snowden |
| productionCompany | Elgin Films |
| publisher | British Lion Films Bryanston Films Seven Arts Pictures |