Landslide

This quota quickie features a story about an abysmally bad troupe of players trapped in a Welsh theater after 1) the murder of the box office lady and 2) a landslide that buries the theater. Obviously made on the cheap, but there's something very compelling (if silly) about the whole thing. It helps that Dinah Sheridan (her film debut) and Jimmy Hanley are the attractive young (and smart) leads. There's also a compulsive whirlwind type who seems to be bouncing all over the stage or playing piano. The credits list him as Ernie Westo, an actor who had a small silent career in the teens playing a comic character named Mike Murphy. Anyway, a dumb cop tries to solve the murder before those trapped die of asphyxiation or starvation, since they have to subsist on the chips (French fries) an old lady brought to the theater.