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Post by teleadm on Jul 16, 2021 5:47:11 GMT
The Southwark Fair of 1705, or at least how Hollywood imagined it could look like, in The Man Who Laughs 1928 Heavily disfigured as a punishment because his father refused to kiss the ring of King James II, and doomed to have an eternal laugh face for the reminder of his life. Saved by Ursus the Philosopher, and with a blind girl, they travel around England and entertains the masses. This also might seem cruel but Ursus actually cares for him and his sorrows and helps him and doesn't treat him like a freak, except when they put on a show. It's not a horror movie as I have thought over the years, probably thanks to pictures in Horror movie books. It's a rather sad love story, but it has a happy ending.
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Post by london777 on Jul 26, 2021 12:29:02 GMT
In A Taste of Honey (1961), dir: Tony Richardson, teenage Jo's mother and the mother's boyfriend go to Blackpool, the traditional seaside playground for Northern industrial workers. Jo (Sheila Delaney) tags along and is a pain in the ass. Here are Jo's horrible mother (Dora Bryan) and her new boyfriend (played by Robert Stephen, at that time touted as Sir Laurence Olivier's successor as Britain's premier thespian, so slumming it) on the seafront. (There is also a later scene in which Jo's gay housemate (Murray Melvin) takes her to a local funfair).
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Post by london777 on Apr 25, 2022 2:09:46 GMT
Sideshow (1950) dir: Jean Yarbrough Yet another about someone hiding out in a carny show to further their own agenda. This time it s a T-Man on the track of jewel smugglers. Although Yarbrough was a competent director the copy on YouTube is too defective for me to perservere with it.
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Post by london777 on Jun 1, 2022 17:56:52 GMT
King of the Carnival (1955) 12-part serial directed by Franklin Adreon. Republic's last serial. They had done well with them. Treasury agents go after a ring of counterfeiters operating out of a traveling carnival.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 7, 2022 23:46:03 GMT
The Circus Queen Murder (1933) Dir. Roy William Neill An entertaining low-budget circus themed pre-code crime drama. Adolphe Menjou stars as lipreading police commissioner Thatcher Colt, it was the second and final film in a short lived series starring Menjou as Colt. Here the burnt out commissioner takes a break and heads upstate, his random choice Gilead however is also the destination of a travelling circus. When a series of mishaps and a serious incident unfolds under the big top, Colt is reluctantly drawn into the affair... I did not expect much, however like the circus audience here, I certainly got a lot more than expected... The Greater John T. Rainey Shows rolls into town....
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