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The Mesmerising Menace. The Dark Tower is directed by John Harlow and is adapted to screenplay by Brock Williams from the play George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott. It stars Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom and William Hartnell. Music is by Jack Beaver and cinematography by Otto Heller. A failing circus employs a mysterious hypnotist to boost the coffers, which with his skills working superbly makes the show a huge success. However, as Torg (Lom) begins to realise his worth to the show, and starts to make designs on the leading lady of the high-wire act, things quickly turn nasty... The play of the same name had already been adapted to the big screen in 1934, where titled as "The Man with Two Faces" it was directed by Archie Mayo and starred Edward G. Robinson. Here this version differs, but on core principals the story remains thematically the same. It's not a particularly strong plot, with it being a variation on the Svengali story, it never really breaks free of safe narrative projection. Yet it's well constructed by Harlow and in fourth billed Lom (the acting highlight by some distance) the pic has a character to really boo and hiss at. Comic relief comes in the form of Frederick Burtwell and Elsie Wagstaff as a married couple dominated by the wife, while all the various circus acts we see, notably Crawford's high-wire hypnotised balancing act (well shot for breath holding rewards), are hugely enjoyable - even if some come off as padded filler. Having the talents of Heller on photography duties is a plus point, he knows how to light a scene for atmospheric gain, though he would be seen at his noirish best in "Queen of Spades (1949)". While of note is that ace Hammer Horror director Terence Fisher is on editing duty here, though he certainly was a better director than an editor... It's no must see unless you be a fan of the stars, mainly Lom in this instance, but in spite of a daft revelation at pic's end, this is above average and holds its own as a competent circus based thriller. 6/10
Herbert Lom is superbly pervasive in this drama about the hypnotic "Torg", who alights on a struggling circus run by "Phil" (Ben Lyon) and his brother "Tom" (David Farrar). He introduces them to a game-changing acrobatic act that soon has the crowds turning up in droves. As success starts to come, "Torg" seeks more from the pair, and from his high-flying partner "Mary" (Anne Crawford) and when they start resisting his demands, things start to take a some distinctly threatening turns. At times, it's got a really effective feel to it, this film - the cast work well together and Lom really has an eeriness and creepiness about his personality that exudes as good a degree of menace as I've seen in ages. Unfortunately, though, the dialogue is poor as is the overall pace of the story - far too many distracting circus routines and romantic sub-plots that drag it down when "Korn" isn't driving the storyline. Pity. Had John Harlow focussed more on his best asset - the nasty and increasingly egregious character we could have had a better film. Still, it is a good watch.
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
A clown leaves the circus where he performed for many years. Accompanied by his nephew and white puddle Arto, he starts performing street shows to earn for living.
An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find each other.
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
A small circus arrives in a coastal area of the North Sea: the place looks rather eerie and the audience is quite scarce. But despite all of this, the life of the performers is animated by feelings born under the circus tent, and which are often lived out in the secret of their trailers. The ballerina Angèle has an affair with Elliot, the company's clown who is tormented by his conscience; but she is also courted by Heroy, the circus director; he is a cruel and potentially dangerous man who is willing to win her over by resorting to the powers of the magician Zephyr.
A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
An old bear goes out every day to a busy street corner. Through a tin marionette theater of his own making, the bear will tell us his life story.
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?
Harry Musk is one in a million. That means that he's the one out of a million children who is perfectly proportioned but will never grow larger than a typical six-year-old. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.