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Circus World (1964)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:2
Rotten:3
Average Rating:4.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Hollywood's take on the big-top life as the Duke shepherds his three-ring extravaganza through a European tour while searching for the aerialist he loved and lost - the mother of his daughter.... Hollywood's take on the big-top life as the Duke shepherds his three-ring extravaganza through a European tour while searching for the aerialist he loved and lost - the mother of his daughter. Plenty of real circus performers and excitement balance the melodrama. [More]
Starring: John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Conte
Starring: John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Conte, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Wanda Rotha, Kay Walsh, Henri Dantes, Katharyna
Director: Henry Hathaway
Director: Henry Hathaway
Screenwriter: Ben Hecht, Julian Halevy, James Edward Grant, Bernard Gordon
Producer: Samuel Bronston
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
Reviews for Circus World
This big, sprawling film, beautifully filmed in Cinerama, has Wayne as the owner/manager of a small-time circus.
John Wayne goes to the Big Top in a Samuel Bronston produced film that has the Duke's role custom-made to fit his rooting-tooting western persona.
Begun by Capra and Completed by Hathaway, Circus World is one of John Wayne's weakest star vehicles, neither entertaining as an adventure nor convincing as a family melodrama.
Heaven help all those other people who, deep down, remain to be convinced of the irresistibility of the circus. They're in for a terrible jolt.
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