Life Is a Circus
1960 British film by Val Guest
- 16 February 1960 (1960-02-16)
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Life is a Circus is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Val Guest[1] and starring Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold and Charlie Naughton of the Crazy Gang. The screenplay concerns a down-on-its-luck circus that uses an Aladdin's Magic Lamp to try to save their business.
The film is generally considered inferior to the Crazy Gang's previous screen appearances.[2]
Cast
- Bud Flanagan as Bud
- Teddy Knox as Sebastian
- Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
- Jimmy Gold as Goldie
- Charlie Naughton as Charlie
- Eddie Gray as Eddie
- Chesney Allen as Ches
- Shirley Eaton as Shirley Winter
- Michael Holliday as Carl Rickenbeck
- Lionel Jeffries as Genie
- Joseph Tomelty as Joe Winter
- Eric Pohlmann as Rickenbeck
- Harold Kasket as Hassan
- Edwin Richfield as Driver
- Peter Glaze as Hand #1
- Sam Kydd as Removal man
- Geoffrey Denton as Policeman
Production
Val Guest saidBritish Lion and E.M. Smedley-Aston "called me up and said “We want to make another picture with The Crazy Gang, are you interested?” and I said “Yes.” Because he said that they’d mentioned me or something…so the whole idea was to write a picture for The Crazy Gang. There we were writing for the Crazy Gang again, and all the boys got together again; we made this circus film for which we put up a big tent in Windsor, near the castle and shot it. They were all exactly the same, they hadn’t changed." Guest felt the film "worked, but I think the humour became dated... however much you tried to update it a bit was difficult. It wasn’t a success. I mean I don’t think it lost money, but it certainly didn’t make anything." [3]
References
- ^ Alan Burton; Steve Chibnall (11 July 2013). Historical Dictionary of British Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-8108-8026-9.
- ^ David R. Sutton (January 2000). A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-85989-603-0.
- ^ Fowler, Roy (1988). "Interview with Val Guest". British Entertainment History Project.
External links
- Life Is a Circus at IMDb
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Films directed by Val Guest
- Miss London Ltd. (1943)
- Bees in Paradise (1944)
- Give Us the Moon (1944)
- I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
- Just William's Luck (1947)
- William Comes to Town (1948)
- Murder at the Windmill (1949)
- Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1949)
- Mister Drake's Duck (1951)
- Penny Princess (1952)
- The Runaway Bus (1954)
- Life with the Lyons (1954)
- Dance, Little Lady (1954)
- The Body Said No! (1954)
- The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)
- The Lyons in Paris (1955)
- Break in the Circle (1955)
- The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
- They Can't Hang Me (1955)
- It's a Wonderful World (1956)
- Carry On Admiral (1957)
- The Weapon (1957)
- Quatermass 2 (1957)
- The Abominable Snowman (1957)
- The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
- Up the Creek (1958)
- Further Up the Creek (1958)
- Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
- Expresso Bongo (1959)
- Life Is a Circus (1960)
- Hell Is a City (1960)
- The Full Treatment (1960)
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
- Jigsaw (1962)
- 80,000 Suspects (1963)
- The Beauty Jungle (1964)
- Where the Spies Are (1965)
- Casino Royale (1967)
- Assignment K (1968)
- Toomorrow (1970)
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
- Au Pair Girls (1972)
- Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
- Killer Force (1976)
- The Boys in Blue (1982)
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