LITTLE BIG SHOT
(Associated British-Byron Films) HAVE no doubt whatever that Ronald Shiner is a natural funny man. He has the face, the figure, and the manner -and no amount of art could quite compensate for the absence of these natural attributes. All he has lacked (in my experience of him) is the opportunity to display them adequately. In Little Big Shot that opportunity still eludes him. This remake of a stage comedy is, in spite of the support of Derek Farr and the veteran Marie Lohr, a sad piece of buffoonery. Into it John Paddy Carstairs has hurled every cliché he could lay hands on-even the custard pie.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 17
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109LITTLE BIG SHOT New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 17
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