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Billy Rose’s Jumbo *** (1962, Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 10,156

Roll up, roll up for smashing performances from effervescent Doris Day (as travelling circus aerialist and trick rider Kitty Wonder), Jimmy Durante (as the circus’s gambling owner and clown Pop Wonder) and Martha Raye (as […]

Aug, 09

Polly of the Circus * (1932, Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 10,139

MGM’s 1932 romantic comedy drama film Polly of the Circus pairs Marion Davies with Clark Gable as a young priest in one of his few real turkeys. Director Alfred Santell’s 1932 MGM romantic comedy drama […]

Aug, 06

Santa Sangre ** (1989, Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Adan Jodorowsky, Thelma Tixou) – Classic Movie Review 9844

Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1989 Mexican horror thriller/ drama Santa Sangre is a highly offensive shocker masquerading as an art film, though nevertheless it is admired for its dementedly weird ideas and crazily surreal visuals. Axel […]

May, 30

Charlie Chan at the Circus ** (1936, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, John McGuire, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford) – Movie Review 9036

Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Circus is a middling, though still entertaining enough episode, in which Warner Oland stars as Chan, who probes a circus killing, along with the help […]

Oct, 31

Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

The Chimp **** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, Dorothy Granger, Tiny Sandford) – Classic Movie Review 7596

‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled at the beauties of circus life – Mr Laurel never got further than the monkey cage.’ After working for a circus for seven weeks of rain and with no business […]

Sep, 19

Street Angel **** (1928, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston) – Classic Movie Review 7537

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]

Sep, 03

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