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ComedyFamilyRomance

The Circus

- The Circus is Here!

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Release Date : 1928-01-06

Language :No Language

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Charles Chaplin Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : The Traveller

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Character Name : A Tramp

Original Name : Charlie Chaplin

Gender : Male

Al Ernest Garcia

Character Name : The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master

Original Name : Al Ernest Garcia

Gender : Male

Merna Kennedy

Character Name : The Proprietor's Step-Daughter Merna, a Circus Rider

Original Name : Merna Kennedy

Gender : Female

Harry Crocker

Character Name : Rex, a Tight Rope Walker

Original Name : Harry Crocker

Gender : Male

George Davis

Character Name : A Magician

Original Name : George Davis

Gender : Male

Henry Bergman

Character Name : An Old Clown

Original Name : Henry Bergman

Gender : Male

Tiny Sandford

Character Name : The Head Property Man

Original Name : Tiny Sandford

Gender : Male

John Rand

Character Name : An Assistant Property Man

Original Name : John Rand

Gender : Male

Steve Murphy

Character Name : A Pickpocket

Original Name : Steve Murphy

Gender : Male

Albert Austin

Character Name : Clown (uncredited)

Original Name : Albert Austin

Gender : Male

Chester A. Bachman

Character Name : Cop (uncredited)

Original Name : Chester A. Bachman

Gender : Male

Eugene Barry

Character Name : Cop (uncredited)

Original Name : Eugene Barry

Gender : Male

Jack Bernard

Character Name : Man in Circus Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Bernard

Gender : Male

Stanley Blystone

Character Name : Cop (uncredited)

Original Name : Stanley Blystone

Gender : Male

Heinie Conklin

Character Name : Clown (uncredited)

Original Name : Heinie Conklin

Gender : Male

Toraichi Kono

Character Name : Man in Circus Audience (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

Original Name : Toraichi Kono

Gender : Male

H.L. Kyle

Character Name : Man in Circus Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : H.L. Kyle

Gender : Male

Betty Morrissey

Character Name : The Vanishing Lady (uncredited)

Original Name : Betty Morrissey

Gender : Female

Jack Pierce

Character Name : Man Operating Ropes (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Pierce

Gender : Male

Wyn Ritchie Evans

Character Name : Woman in Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Wyn Ritchie Evans

Gender : Female

Hugh Saxon

Character Name : Man in Circus Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Hugh Saxon

Gender : Male

Doc Stone

Character Name : The Prizefighter (uncredited)

Original Name : Doc Stone

Gender : Male

Armand Triller

Character Name : Clown (uncredited)

Original Name : Armand Triller

Gender : Male

Max Tyron

Character Name : Pickpocket Victim (uncredited)

Original Name : Max Tyron

Gender : Male

Reviews

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talisencrw

@talisencrw

2021-06-23

When I'm faced with challenges in my life, I am somewhat heartened by something I learned as a child, that an oyster has to be irritated by a grain of sand in order to eventually make a pearl. That knowledge always made the load I was carrying seem less significant, and helped me to see the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. Cinematically speaking, at least in the fine age of silent movies, one of the most difficult gestation periods for the birth of a great film was the highly traumatic 11 months of production for one of Sir Charles Chaplin's masterpieces, 'The Circus'. I love both silent cinema and early filmic comedies, and though I prefer Buster Keaton to Chaplin, I always enjoy his great works, up to and including 'The Great Dictator'. Particularly close to my heart is 'The Circus'. Considering all of the brutal disasters Sir Charles Chaplin was facing during the movie's elongated production (ruined film negative, studio burning down, Lita Grey's divorce papers [and the related sex-scandals hitting the papers], nervous breakdown, mother dying, IRS demanding a million in back taxes, one of the circus wagons being stolen, just to mention a few), it's miraculous that a film was released at all, let alone one as gracefully hilarious yet contemplatively mature as 'The Circus', and that he was able to both recover and rebound from this bad spell to have a superlative career as one of the greatest actor/directors ever to grace cinema. His life was basically a three-ring circus, and he was still able to retain his dignity and escape virtually unscathed. Because of the aforementioned trials and tribulations he endured in those eleven months of the film's making (which IMHO would be worthy of a fine film itself, in its documentation and chronicling), though it may not be as side-splitting in its hilarity as 'The Gold Rush' or 'Modern Times', it will probably hold the closest place to my heart of Chaplin's films.