Monday 16 April 2012

Clowning around

Circus World (1964)

Also known as The Magnificent Showman this film from director Henry Hathaway stars John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale and Rita Hayworth. An American circus travels to Europe but suffers a disaster and has to rebuild.

This film is pretty rough around the edges and could have done with trimming down in the running time to start with. The plot is not bad but does appear to leave some loose ends with respect to the motivations of one of the side characters. Obviously the main draw here are the circus acts which are decent but nothing that will take your breath away.

2/5

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