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Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

Live Poll. What is The Greatest Circus Movie?

List page: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls502203926/

Poll Page:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/ReJ5oCDafDM/

What is the greatest movie about circuses? (Eventhough, I did include only 1 television show that is set in a traveling circus.) it is that simple. No traveling carnival movies. All the films (and 1 tv show) are 6.0 or better. Which one do you think is the greatest circus movie? If you want to see another circus show listed, or stand up and applause any already on the list, as circus barkers used to say, “Step right up and get your ticket here”.

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5 years ago

Man! A ton of these movies are great and deserve to be in a lot of people’s collections. I own a few myself, (“Mirror Mask”, “The Greatest Showman”, and “7 Faces of Dr. Lao”) and I plan to buy some more (“Circus World”, “The Greatest Show on Earth”, “Man on A Tightrope” and “Trapeze” and more). I just ordered “Bill Rose’s Jumbo” (very good film that few know about because it had the ill luck of bad timing of it’s release that hurt it’s box office.)

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5 years ago

Bump. No circus fans out there?

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5 years ago

 Circus World i love this one, its very interesting.

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4 years ago

Please adjust the title capitalization:

What Is the Greatest Circus Movie?

You say that all titles have a rating of 6.0 or better, but Circus Boy (1947) doesn't have any rating.

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4 years ago

FYC:

La strada (1954)

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4 years ago

May I suggest a few edits?

What is the greatest movie about circuses?

(Even though, I did include only 1 television show that is set in a traveling circus.) it is that simple. No traveling carnival movies. All the films (and 1 TV show) are 6.0 or better. Which one do you think is the greatest circus movie?

If you want to see another circus show listed, or stand up and applaud any already on the list, as circus barkers used to say, “Step right up and get your ticket here”.

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@Jessica done

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4 years ago

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@Breumaster

There is a good movie in which circus is an important element, but not the main motive. It Louis deFunes' 'L'aile ou la cuisse'. In that movie he plays Charles Duchemin, the biggest (fictional) restaurant critic with his own publishing house. He wants his son to follow his footsteps, but the son's greatest passion is to play the clown in a local circus. I don't know, if that would be ok for you, but the moral of it says it's better to be a clown and happy than doing what it is expected and being unhappy.

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4 years ago

@dgranger,

Please consider the edit that Jessica suggests.

For your consideration:

The Main Attraction (1962)

Eddie, an American, is a drifter currently in Italy working his way as a singer. That drifting is in he running away from himself, he not much liking that person which in turn makes others eventually not like him, one reason he gets fired from job after job. It is when he is fired from his latest job that he is discovered by Gina, who wants him to be the straight man, the singer, in her ventriloquist act in a traveling circus. She eventually does let him know that he is just the latest of her assistants, who she expects to be by her side both on stage and in her bedroom. The circus is owned and operated by Rico and Elleanora Marino, who along with her younger sister Tessa also have a combination trick riding/acrobat act. As Elleanora now requires arm braces to walk, the permanent disability the result of an on stage accident, Tessa, who is just reaching her womanhood, has taken over most of the physically demanding and risky female tricks in the act. An easy rapport and eventual friendship forms between Eddie and Tessa, which does not sit well with either Gina who does not take kindly to what she believes is Eddie's romantic interest in Tessa, and Rico, who sees in Tessa more than just a surrogate little sister and who sees Eddie solely as Gina's latest trash. In addition, Eddie learns that "Bozo", one of the circus clowns, is Gina's ex-husband who he believes still has an interest in Gina in every respect. In both Eddie and Tessa individually trying to escape this complicated situation, Eddie may discover that person in himself he truly does like, with both also unwittingly ending up in a potentially life threatening situation from running away.Huggo

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@dan_dassow the rating was too low. Otherwise that would have been on.

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4 years ago

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@dan_dassow thanks I did. To add onto that, in your IPhone, go to settings, click on  safari, click on “clear browsing history and cookies”.

now to add more entries. The challenge here is to put films that are about circuses. The trouble is people (and some IMDb keywords too) are mixing circus with carnival. There is a difference between the two. The circus has the main show and rings in the big top tent, and drives the audience to the big top. Rides, games, concession stalls, and sideshows are along the fairway or midway. While carnivals in Europe and central and South America are associated with religious holidays, traveling carnivals in America are not. Carnivals are basically all midway and sideshows without the big top tent, and the main show. It allows the customers to wonder about. And both have clowns, along with rodeoed and fairs. Clowns are not just associated with circuses alone. 
that is why I got to be careful in what I select. Films like “Something Wicked This Way Comes” has the circus keyword but it is about a carnival from hell.

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4 years ago

Hey guys, you are going to love this one. I just got “Circus World” on dvd and just found a crazy connection to it and “The Lion King”.  The lion cub that John Wayne rescues in the shipwreck scene is named Simba the main character in “The Lion King” (before “The Lion King” was ever made).

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4 years ago

dgranger,

Thanks for making the corrections.

Please also edit the title as Peter suggested:

What Is the Greatest Circus Movie?

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4 years ago

Done. Also removed the double entry I accidentally put in. To those that caught that, why didn’t you tell me I did that? 

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Thanks.

"The" should be lowercase:

What Is the Greatest Circus Movie?

 

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Done! 
man, these rules on what to capitalize and not to capitalize is getting confusing. I have to look at the titles on the list to get a clue and check it with a google search on capitalization. 
“Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus”

ok, got it! Articles, conjunctions, and prepositions do not get capitalized unless they are the beginning word of the title. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs always gets capitalized.

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BTW, I’m dying to give out this answer on the Man! You Don’t Look Like Yourself or Who Would Win a Lon Chaney Award Poll Suggestion.

That is Doris Day under that clown makeup.

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@Jessica thanks

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4 years ago

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/ReJ5oCDafDM/

Congratulations Dgranger

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@Pencho15 thank you again. I just made the required changes before Dan Dassow tells me too. Now I hope Breumaster can get his scary clown one going.

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