Circus Movies

[CharlieH.]

Inspired by small hijack elsewhere in the board...

Does anyone here like movies (classic or otherwise) that are set (entirely or otherwise) in a circus?
Off the top of my head I can remember:

Shadows and Fog
Freaks
Dumbo
El Circo (mexican feature starring Cantinflas)
Big Fish

And that's pretty much it. Anyone else?

 

[LolitaHaze]

I want to say there is a ciruc movie called Making Whoopie or something hootchie cootchie... I'll look it up see if I can't find it... Ah... oh pooh. I can't find it. I am way off by the name I am sure... but it is a classic where the gal loves two guys and one dies because he wants to do the trapeze act without te net. Eh...

Oh and Big Top PeeWee is still one of my favourites!!!

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Circus of fear
Circus world with Rita Hayworth
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Berserk! Joan Crawford looking good in her 60s in a leotard. And of course,
The Unknown

 

[Harp]

Circus

Trapese starring Gina Lollabrigida!

 

[Absinthe_1900]

I'm surprised this one was missed.

"The Greatest Show on Earth"
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0044672/



And another:

"The Big Circus"

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0052626/

 

[LolitaHaze]

Maybe that is the one I was thinking of...

I'm surprised this one was missed.

"The Greatest Show on Earth"
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0044672/

 

[Feraud]

The Greatest Show On Earth is a good one.
Let's not forget Nightmare Alley, Freaks, and a film with Lon Chaney whose names escapes me at the moment.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

The Unknown with Lon Chaney.
I remembered Nightmare Alley as more of a carnival setting? Am I remembering something wrongly as usual? Lots of carnival movies out there, anyway.
Another circus movie: Murder by Alfred Hitchcock

 

[John in Covina]

The best Circus film evar!

"You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" W.C. Fields one of his best, and you get Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy TOO!

 

[Senator Jack]

One of my favorites: Lili. A charming 50s film with Leslie Caron as a lovestruck girl and Mel Ferrer as a puppeteer.


When I was a kid, Berserk seemed to be a late-show staple. I watched it every time it was on. Still can't figure how the killer got the tight rope to wrap around the equlibirist's neck like that.

Others that I haven't seen in some time are Fellini's 'Clowns' and a semi-docmunetary called 'Rings Around the World.'

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[Lord Jagged]

How about Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at the Circus - wonderful incidentals like the costumes and the "gorilla". I think its amazing that the studio rolled out four Charlie Chan movies in 1936 when they produced "at the Circus".

 

[Doctor Strange]

No love for Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus" (1928)?

I know it's considered one of his "lesser" films... but that's only because it had the misfortune to come between two mega-masterpieces, "The Gold Rush" and "City Lights"!

 

[drafttek]

What about "Gorilla at Large"? I saw it on TV in 3D.
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0047041/

 

[BegintheBeguine]

I saw that on tv in 3D, too, it was fun.
CharlieH: do you want carnival or circus movies or both?

 

[Haversack]

One of Disney's live action mini-series from the Wonderful World of Colour: _Toby Tyler_.

Haversack.

 

[Honey Doll]

How about.....

The Marx Brothers "At the Circus".... with the song Lydia the tatoo-ed lady.

Honey Doll

 

[Girl Friday]

Freaks on TCM Oct. 31st 6AM!

I am SO gonna set my DVR for this one!

 

[CharlieH.]

I saw that on tv in 3D, too, it was fun.
CharlieH: do you want carnival or circus movies or both?

Ahything that involves a big top, animals and...clowns!

Which reminded me of a Superman short - Terror on the Midway.