tt0018773 The Circus (1928)Director : Charles Chaplin

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Genre : Comedy, Family, Drama, Romance

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Al Ernest Garcia as The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master (as Allan Garcia) , Merna Kennedy as His Step-daughter, A Circus Rider , Harry Crocker as Rex, A Tight Rope Walker / Disgruntled Property Man / Clown , George Davis as A Magician , Henry Bergman as An Old Clown , Tiny Sandford as The Head Property Man (as Stanley J. Sandford) , John Rand as An Assistant Property Man / Clown , Steve Murphy as A Pickpocket , Charles Chaplin as A Tramp (as Charlie Chaplin)

Plot : The Tramp finds make effort furthermore the damsel of his dreams at a circus.

Run Time : 71 min

Country : USA

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Language : None

Filming Locations : Chaplin Studios - 1416 N. La Brea Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company : Charles Chaplin Productions

Trivia : Premiere included live the podium introduction written by Joseph Plunkett.

Goofs : Revealing mistakes: After the tramp washes the shaving cream like his face, he dries himself plus a towel on the variegated hand the towel on no account touches his facial expression (this is most likely as a result that it won’t wash up the the rostrum makeup).

Tag Lines : The Circus is Here!
Charlie Chaplin in the Greatest Picture of His Entire Career…
You've waited two years for this one, but oh boy—here it comes—the greatest comedy of all time! It's a circus! Positively the greatest show of mirth!
HIS LATEST! CHARLIE CHAPLIN in "THE CIRCUS" (original print ad - almost all caps)

Plot Summary : Charlie’s Tramp temperament finds himself at a circus where he is directly gets chased just about by the observe who assume he is a pickpocket. Running into the bigtop, he is an circumstantial emotion as well as his odd efforts to elude the police. The ringmaster/owner instantaneously hires him, other than discovers the Tramp cannot engagement comical on purpose, as a result he gets rid of profit of the shape by earning the Tramp a janitor merely happens to often inside the Bigtop at showtime. Unaware of this exploitation, the Tramp falls for the grounds that the owner’s attractive lithe daughter, who is abused by her father. His twists of fate seem good, awaiting a dashing foe comes inside furthermore Charlies feels he has to compete as well as him.

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