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The best example of superb timing is when Charley pulls a chair out for himself and replaces it just in time for the circus manager to sit down in.
This turns dark and perhaps the darkness is implicit in the persona of the tramp and the venue of the circus, but it also has some breathtaking and very funny sequences before that final third.
It's a very good film, and Chaney is again amazing as tortured circus performer Alonzo, who is hopelessly in love with young Nanon (Joan Crawford), who doesn't like to be touched by men.
Soon after a leopard, hired from a traveling circus for a publicity stunt, escapes from a fancy nightclub, horribly mutilated bodies begin to turn up in a Mexican border town.
And there's real comedy too ... farce, circus buffoonery and even belly laughs.
Lon Chaney (as Alonzo the Armless) is a criminal posing as an armless circus knife-wielder; he amazes by throwing knives with his feet, notably at assistant Joan Crawford (as Nanon Zanzi).
Evidently a victim of sex abuse, Ms. Crawford has an unusual fear of arms; so, she rejects the advances of circus strongman Norman Kerry (as Malabar the Mighty).
From this, you can see the pity that he feels for this man who has drawn the lot of a lowly circus freak; just from that one shot of a tear, David Lynch shows us the sorrow and the pity, and that's all he needs.
Despite the circus that surrounded the question of the will's validity, Melvin was content just knowing that, during their drive, Howard Hughes had sung a song that Melvin had written.
It's a stiff and self-conscious circus, albeit one with an opulent 1920s production design.
"This Ritz Brothers vehicle features them as detectives hired to protect lawyer Walter Stevens (Lionel Atwell) from 'The Gorilla', a killer working under the guise of an escaped circus animal.
Lon Chaney plays Alonzo, a supposedly armless knife thrower with a gypsy circus.
The circus animals were the best actors there!
Theres is too much of a temptation for these directors to turn the film into a media circus, cheesy songs are one medium for this.
The original things and new in it , were the vampire turned from a circus , a new weapon for the vampire slayer also combined with a bad whip.
THE CIRCUS may well be one of the best of Chaplin's silent comedies, especially enjoyable from the point where he inadvertently becomes the hit of the circus when he pinch hits for someone at the last moment.
It has anti-climactic kung-fu slow motion sequences, outraged Jewish circus performers, and evil monkey/human nazi experiments.
Wu Ma runs a circus and Yuen Biao is his top performer.
Because of war going on they have to close the circus.
Alonzo is a circus performer, who uses his feet to throw knives since he appears to have no arms.
In love with the circus owner's daughter, Alonzo kills the circus owner when he discovers he really does have arms.
On his return from hospital, he finds that Malabar and Nanon are engaged, so he attempts to have Malabar killed in a circus accident.
When destroying all of Granville's holdings in order to ruin him, he burns down the Granville Amusement Center, which claims the life of the younger brother of one of three circus daredevils.
It would have helped if Victor Mature's shifty circus owner were either less of a jerk or an out-and-out villain, and certainly if Vincent Price (who seems to have been cast as the ringmaster simply because of his moustache) had been given more to do than to stand around in unbecoming leisure outfits.
Two of earlier cinema's suspense and ghoul masters are in fine form in this traveling circus story about an armless knife thrower and the woman he made the ultimate sacrifice for.
He loves his assistant Nanon, who through unexplained hang-ups of her own (she is repulsed by the touch of a man) rebuffs the advances of Malabar the circus strongman, instead preferring Alonzo.
Alonzo gets in an argument with the circus owner and strangles him.
Killer Klowns takes a well deserved shot at the circus clowns that most kids never liked, and some kids found terrifying.
With Lon Chaney hiding from the law pretending to be an armless circus performer.
Once I overlooked the slow moving action (at times) and hokey plot and dialogue, I found this movie really entertaining in a circus and carnival (freaky pirates, treasure, monkey, violence, wild colors in a rough landscape with spaghetti western flashbacks) sort of way.
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