I remember seeing this film as a lad on a family outing in Manhattan, topped off by my insistence that we have dinner at Jack Dempsey's Restaurant in Manhattan. Too bad the old champ wasn't there that day or it would have been a perfect Sunday. Seeing it now on a formatted VHS the awesomeness of the spectacle during the scenes of the circus fires and the capsized ship in the harbor is really lost. It's quite an eyeful and should only be scene in theaters. And the film would be revived, but we have a subdued John Wayne here and it's not for the better. This was originally to be a Frank Capra film and Capra bowed out after creative differences with the Duke and some of the Duke's personal entourage. Read the Capra autobiography to find out exactly what they were, but they weren't fully fixed in the final product by director Henry Hathaway who later piloted the Duke to his Oscar in True Grit. John Wayne was a guy who was usually very careful to give the public the Duke they expected. Even when he stretched his abilities it was done with a firm directorial hand. We're asked to accept the Duke as a man who had an adulterous affair here. He also does not throw one punch in this entire film or fire a weapon in other than it being part of his Wild West Show. The people went to see John Wayne, but they didn't get their money's worth. Pity because it would have been great to see John Wayne with Rita Hayworth in a great film. That couldn't have happened when they were younger because of Rita's contract with Columbia pictures and Wayne's personal boycotting of that studio because of his dislike for Harry Cohn. That story I won't go into. Rita Hayworth who doesn't enter into the film until almost halfway through is fine as Wayne's lost love. She and Claudia Cardinale looked just fine in tights as trapeze artists. Lloyd Nolan as Wayne's sidekick is always good. Richard Conte is Hayworth's brother-in-law and Cardinale's uncle. This fine actor is wasted here in a part that either was badly written or left on the cutting room floor. John Smith was a Wayne protégé of sorts, Wayne gave him an early break in The High and the Mighty which he produced. Smith went on to star in the Laramie TV series and on completion of that he was cast opposite Cardinale, probably at Wayne's insistence. I remember always wondering what happened to him because he left show business shortly afterwards. Then back in the Nineties I read he had died of cirrhosis of the liver. I guess you can fill in the blanks. At the time Circus World came out, there was on television a prime time series called International Showtime. It was on Fridays at 8 pm. and it was set in a different city in Europe every week. Hosted by Don Ameche it featured the very best circus acts in the world. So did Circus World, but it certainly was no incentive for people to come out to see this when they could see the same thing at home. Also Paramount re-released Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth to a brisk box office business at the same time Circus World came out. So for all these reasons Circus World flopped and bankrupted producer Samuel Bronstein. Nevertheless if you're a circus fan you will enjoy seeing this. But it's not the Duke his fans have come to expect.
关联推荐
猜你喜欢
6.0全2集未知 以“一位女性不断与命运抗争的故事”为主线,讲述唐代女诗人薛涛的成长历程,在诗与笺的韵律里,读懂她惊艳时光的风骨传奇!结合中唐时期成都的社会状况、历史演进、地域文化等,阐释了以薛涛为代表的中华女性“
5.0更新至2689集刘丹 单立文 汤盈盈 吕慧仪 罗乐林 马贯东 苏韵姿 周嘉洛 陈浚霆 吴伟豪 處境劇的御用監製羅鎮岳已經準備開拍新一套處境劇,暫定叫《愛.回家之開心速遞》,「過往的處境劇都是以家庭為主,今次當然不例外啦。而故事除了家庭,因為網購現在都好 ,就會講到一間百貨公司,入面開設的網
10.0HD国语孙志强 徐海文 谢雨欣 曾湘媛 安诺轩辞高薪逐写作梦,26 岁遭男友陈强出轨并贬其梦想,分手后陷窘境。闺蜜帮她招租,曾被她所救、暗恋她的苏梓桥借机合租。两人磨合中渐生情,虽因误会分开,安诺轩却知心意。苏梓桥助她入职,共退联姻对象华清
6.0更新至02集未知 “滚滚长江东逝水,浪花淘尽英雄。”这首随《三国演义》传遍天下的词,并非出于罗贯中,而是明代才子杨慎,号“升庵”。12月30日晚22:04, -9播出纪录片《杨升庵》,通过情景再现、专家访谈、
5.0更新至20251112期tablo 秋成勋 李辉才 张铉诚 最新推出的亲子综艺(快乐星期天),内容为父亲带着孩子,在没有妈妈的情况下度过48小时现4位父子。参演艺人:秋成勋与女儿严泰雄与女儿宋一国与三胞胎儿子李辉才与双胞胎儿子收视率分布:1
3.0更新至03集白宇 胡歌 雷佳音 林晓杰 欧豪 宋佳 陈晓 童瑶 毛晓彤 王佳佳 王骁 王玉雯 闫妮 于适 严晓频 易小星 岳旸 颖儿 翟子路 翟小兴 张颂文 林家川 王安宇 张云龙 郭京飞 左凌峰 金世佳 郑业成 李兰迪 张振朗 刘思维 朱美吉 深圳,24小时书店里,求职受挫的鲁达在深夜书页与咖啡香气中重燃斗志,最终敲开机遇之门;华强北商厦中戏曲名伶范姐褪下戏袍化身“跑楼女王”,在电子产品江湖闯出新天地;外卖骑手谭小荷以“接单女王”之名诠








