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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 14:05:21 GMT
timshelboy so there ARE two fans ! yay Us. Greatest Show was one of those films that was re-released back in the days before films were available to the general public and I went to see it each and every time. Circus World in Baraboo Wisconsin (the home of the Ringlings and the winter quarter of the Circus in tenting days) had a weekend where miniature circuses were being displayed. One was a re-creation of the Circus as it was the year of the film and the artist had bought the Elephant Trainer's costume and had it there on display. GREAT visiting with him. Too bad it was before I had a digital camera and didn't get to take tons of pictures.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 1, 2018 17:19:37 GMT
Circus World 1964 The differnt versions of State Fair 1933, 1945 and 1962 had fairground, the latter shot at a real fairground, Fair Park, Dallas. The Valley of Gwangi 1969 the giant reptile was used by a traveling carnival show as an attraction, it didn't work out so well, since it escaped. 4 Devils 1928, directed by F.W. Murnau, about trapeze siblings, one of many lost films. The Marx Brothers At the Circus 1939
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Post by teleadm on Aug 1, 2018 17:33:49 GMT
Wallace Beery as The Great Barnum 1934, with his sideshow victims. The Flying Fontaines 1959, trapeze artists Toby Tyler 1960
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 18:31:48 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 1, 2018 20:05:52 GMT
When their schooner arrives at the port of Marseille, a carnival barker and a beautiful high diver "Mam'selle Godiva" (Louise Brooks) attempt to scam the wide eyed sailor Spike (Victor McLaglen) out of his hard earned savings. in A Girl in Every Port (1928) Howard Hawks. While up there with the high dive acts, W. Somerset Maugham's Encore (1951) has a segment, "The Gigolo and the Gigolette" which tells the tale of a travelling sideshow act, beautiful daredevil Stella Cotman (Glynis Johns) has become weary and starts to lose her nerve atop the eighty foot ladder, as she entertains the uncaring guests of a resort hotel that has hired them.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 20:24:29 GMT
Speaking of Diving : "Thrilled by a performance she sees at a fair, Sonora (Gabrielle Anwar) tries to land a spot as a daredevil who rides horses off of high dives. With the help of Al Carver (Michael Schoeffling), whose father runs the show, Sonora works toward her goal. An injury to star rider Marie (Kathleen York) paves her way, and Sonora finds herself on the diving platform. Her life looks complete now that she and Al are in love, but Sonora is about to be thrust into the most trying time of her life."
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Post by fangirl1975 on Aug 1, 2018 21:19:14 GMT
SSSSSSS has a couple of scenes that take place at a carnival.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 21:31:00 GMT
There is no show BUT the Zoltan Machine in BIG is located in a fairground ditto the Ferris Wheel in EAST OF EDENand the carousel in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 1, 2018 21:48:21 GMT
Lonely New York workers Jim and Mary meet on a public holiday outing to Coney Island and enjoy all the sideshow attractions in the beautifully composed film Lonesome (1928) Directed by Hungarian born American filmmaker Paul Fejös. the classic film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" Between around 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitors per year. At its height the area contained three competing major amusement parks, Luna Park, Dreamland, and Steeplechase Park, as well as many independent amusements and sideshow attractions.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Aug 1, 2018 22:05:21 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 1, 2018 23:51:47 GMT
Just before On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan directed the gritty and gripping Man On A Tightrope, with Fredric March as the owner-operator of a Czech circus troupe plotting a collective escape from behind the iron curtain. March, Adolphe Menjou Gloria Grahame March, Cameron Mitchell, Terry Moore March
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 2, 2018 0:02:22 GMT
The 41-year-old Burt Lancaster performed all but one of the trapeze stunts himself, having worked in a circus before entering films. He insisted on doing the climactic triple somersault, but technical adviser Eddie Ward initially was hesitant on Lancaster performing the stunt, so Ward doubled for Lancaster during the first weeks of shooting. Director Carol Reed eventually hired Lancaster's longtime friend, stuntman Nick Cravat to perform the stunt. The Team of Lancaster and Curtis, ever at loggerheads.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 2, 2018 0:39:33 GMT
A priceless moment from Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962):
Only Durante could pull this off.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 2, 2018 0:50:34 GMT
Saboteur
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 2, 2018 0:54:34 GMT
NEW and have not seen it yet but CIRCUS it certainly is
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 2, 2018 1:01:38 GMT
Two with Mr Welles, though he isn't in either shot.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 2, 2018 1:10:00 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 2, 2018 1:17:12 GMT
Seeing The Greatest Show On Earth at the Encino Theater in the San Fernando Valley is one of my earliest cinema memories. But when I'm in the mood for colorful big top entertainment (and with apologies to BATouttaheck, who hates Victor Mature and loves TGSOE), I'll take the lean, mean, fast-paced, unpretentious The Big Circus (1959) from Allied Artists over DeMille/Paramount bombast and sentiment, with Mature leading a dandy cast as the beleaguered empresario of the Whirling Circus, battling competitors, banks and saboteurs. Mature as Hank Whirling Red Buttons, Kathryn Grant Vincent Price Buttons, Peter Lorre, Rhonda Fleming Gilbert Roland David Nelson Grant and Nelson doing some of their own aerial work.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 2, 2018 1:20:13 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 2, 2018 1:29:23 GMT
Doghouse6 maybe I could stomach Vic just this once ... as long as he isn't in a toga or a loincloth ! I seem to remember seeing David Nelson in a circus picture and he cannot have been in all that many so I probably saw this at some point ! Peter Lorre ? Price ? maybe watchable ! and a dawg recommend ... OK !
edit to mention that I just noticed that Vic and Kathryn both have the same little spit-curl on their fore heads in those pictures you posted ! That just struck me as funny, is all.
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