Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "Circus World" a/k/a "The Magnificent Showman"(1964)

You Tube ^ | 1964 | Henry Hathaway

[ReformationFan]

Today's feature is the last of independent producer Samuel Bronston's("King of Kings", "El Cid", "55 Days At Peking") huge epic productions of the early 1960s. John Wayne plays a tough owner of a big wild west show/circus travelling through Europe. Claudia Cardinale plays his adopted daughter and Rita Hayworth plays a woman from the Duke's past. Directed by Henry Hathaway("The Sons of Katie Elder").

[ReformationFan]

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[savagesusie]

Thanks for posting. Never saw this one and I am a John Wayne/Rita Hayward fan.

[MUDDOG]

Sounds good. Not to be confused with Circus Boy (with Mickey the Monkee).

[Robe]

Watching “The Music Man” right now on TCM.. Great Movie

[ReformationFan]

76 Trombones.....

[ReformationFan]

You’re welcome. I believe it was the only film they made together.

[ReformationFan]

Have to admit I never saw that one.

[MUDDOG]

It was a kids TV show in the 1950s, and it was rerun a lot in the '50s and early '60s.

Mickey Dolenz (then known as Mickey Braddock) was a little boy who worked for the circus.

It wasn't bad, and the acting experience probably helped him get the Monkee job.

In the Monkees , Davey Jones and Mickey Dolenz, being from an acting rather than a music background, didn't mind that studio musicians played the instruments on the records, because to them it was just a show. Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork though, being professional musicians, raised a stink.

[Harold Shea]

Circus Boy...that was early tv,real early.

Never knew of this Circus World movie before.

[MUDDOG]

I don’t remember Circus World either. But Circus Boy was on a lot in the late ‘50s-early ‘60s.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you!