Small Hotel is a 1957 British 'B' [2] comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, John Loder, and Janet Munro.

[4] Albert, a crafty old waiter in a country hotel known as The Jolly Fiddler, teaches the younger staff how to maximise their tips and get rid of surplus food in the kitchen.

He suddenly finds he must work new tricks on management after being told he is too old for the job and will be replaced by a hard-nosed young waitress, named Miss Mallet.

"[6] The play was produced again in 1955 under the title Small Hotel, eventually travelling to London in October where it ran until January and then had a long life in amateur companies.

"[14] Britmovie noted, "Twenty years after appearing on stage in this lively Rex Frost play, in his penultimate film Gordon Harker reprises the role of a belligerent hotel waiter having to use all his wit and cunning to save his job.