Directed by:
Charlie ChaplinScreenplay:
Charlie ChaplinCinematography:
Roland TotherohComposer:
Charlie ChaplinCast:
Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin, Stanley Blystone, Heinie Conklin, Hugh Saxon, George Davis, Tiny Sandford, Jack P. Pierce (more)VOD (3)
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In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin revels in the art of the circus, paying tribute to the acrobats and pantomimists who inspired his virtuoso pratfalls. After being mistaken for a pickpocket, Chaplin’s Little Tramp flees into the ring of a traveling circus and soon becomes the star of the show, falling for the troupe’s bareback rider along the way. Despite its famously troubled production, this gag-packed comedy ranks among Chaplin’s finest, thanks to some of the most audacious set pieces of the director-performer’s career, including a close brush with a lion and a climactic tightrope walk with a barrelful of monkeys. Rereleased in 1969 with a new score by Chaplin, The Circus is an uproarious high-wire act that showcases silent cinema’s most popular entertainer at the peak of his comic powers. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Charlie Chaplin
UK
Best movies:
The Chaplin Revue (1959)
The Kid (1921)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Merna Kennedy
USA
Best movies:
The Circus (1928)
King of Jazz (1930)
Henry Bergman
USA
Best movies:
The Kid (1921)
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
Albert Austin
UK
Best movies:
The Kid (1921)
City Lights (1931)
The Circus (1928)
Stanley Blystone
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
The Circus (1928)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Heinie Conklin
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Hugh Saxon
USA
Best movies:
The Circus (1928)
Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
George Davis
Netherlands
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Circus (1928)
Tiny Sandford
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
The Circus (1928)
Jack P. Pierce
Greece
Best movies:
The Circus (1928)
Al Ernest Garcia
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
The Circus (1928)
Harry Crocker
USA
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
The Circus (1928)
Gentleman Jim (1942)