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Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208

‘The story of one woman’s shame!’ Kurt Neumann’s 1954 circus melodrama movie Carnival Story stars Anne Baxter and Steve Cochran. ‘The story of one woman’s shame!’ Co-writer/ director Kurt Neumann’s 1954 circus drama film Carnival […]

Oct, 28

First a Girl **** (1935, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee, Griffith Jones) – Classic Movie Review 6532

Jessie Matthews lights up director Victor Saville’s delightful 1935 musical comedy, the first remake of Reinhold Schünzel’s 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria, which was eventually to wind up as Julie Andrews’s property as Victor […]

Jan, 07

Trapeze *** (1956, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 5709

The alluring stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida, the exciting trapeze stunts and the tasty circus atmosphere are the main attractions in the 1956 film Trapeze. ‘It happens there in mid-air…in all its […]

Jul, 04

Circus World [The Magnificent Showman] *** (1964, John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte) – Classic Movie Review 4295

The Western meets the circus in director Henry Hathaway’s enjoyable old-style 1964 adventure movie, with John Wayne enjoying himself in a ripe and rich turn as circus owner Matt Masters leading a Wild West show through […]

Sep, 03

The Big Show ** (1961, Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean, Nehemiah Persoff, David Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3400

This familiar-feeling big top melodrama, with its old tale of circus family conflicts, is a sneaky reworking of themes from the big-city drama House of Strangers (1949) and the Western Broken Lance (1954) without actually […]

Feb, 22

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