马戏团的表演因为呆板无趣而失去了观众，他们面临着破产和倒闭的危险，谁都不知道会不会有“救星”从天而降。流浪汉查理（查理·卓别林 饰）在游园会中被卷入了一个小偷的圈套中，招来警察的追捕。他像无头的苍蝇一样钻进了正在演出的马戏团。舞台上，查理躲避警察的各种肢体动作，被观众当成马戏团的表演，他们非常喜欢查理的“表演”，热烈地鼓掌来。马戏团老板想让查理留下来，帮助马戏团起死回生。虽然查理并不想以马戏团为生，但是走投无路的他为了维持生计也只好接受了老板的提议......

一位疯狂的整形外科医生接管了一家马戏团，他把一些相貌丑陋的年轻女子整形为貌美如花的佳人，并强迫她们在马戏团去表演。但是获得美丽的佳人们却试图逃脱医生的掌控，一出出“意外”开始上演

这些疯子在高楼间辗转腾挪，从50米的高空往下跳，驾驶摩托车空翻。可谓"没有最疯狂，只有更疯狂！ 还记得那部北美周末票房冠军《蠢蛋搞怪秀》嘛？他们有接班人了！这部《疯狂马戏团》上周在北美800家影院上映。这些疯子在高楼间辗转腾挪，从50米的高空往下跳，驾驶摩托车空翻。可谓"没有最疯狂，只有更疯狂！"

Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.

I remember seeing this film as a lad on a family outing in Manhattan, topped off by my insistence that we have dinner at Jack Dempsey's Restaurant in Manhattan. Too bad the old champ wasn't there that day or it would have been a perfect Sunday. Seeing it now on a formatted VHS the awesomeness of the spectacle during the scenes of the circus fires and the capsized ship in the harbor is really lost. It's quite an eyeful and should only be scene in theaters. And the film would be revived, but we have a subdued John Wayne here and it's not for the better. This was originally to be a Frank Capra film and Capra bowed out after creative differences with the Duke and some of the Duke's personal entourage. Read the Capra autobiography to find out exactly what they were, but they weren't fully fixed in the final product by director Henry Hathaway who later piloted the Duke to his Oscar in True Grit. John Wayne was a guy who was usually very careful to give the public the Duke they expected. Even when he stretched his abilities it was done with a firm directorial hand. We're asked to accept the Duke as a man who had an adulterous affair here. He also does not throw one punch in this entire film or fire a weapon in other than it being part of his Wild West Show. The people went to see John Wayne, but they didn't get their money's worth. Pity because it would have been great to see John Wayne with Rita Hayworth in a great film. That couldn't have happened when they were younger because of Rita's contract with Columbia pictures and Wayne's personal boycotting of that studio because of his dislike for Harry Cohn. That story I won't go into. Rita Hayworth who doesn't enter into the film until almost halfway through is fine as Wayne's lost love. She and Claudia Cardinale looked just fine in tights as trapeze artists. Lloyd Nolan as Wayne's sidekick is always good. Richard Conte is Hayworth's brother-in-law and Cardinale's uncle. This fine actor is wasted here in a part that either was badly written or left on the cutting room floor. John Smith was a Wayne protégé of sorts, Wayne gave him an early break in The High and the Mighty which he produced. Smith went on to star in the Laramie TV series and on completion of that he was cast opposite Cardinale, probably at Wayne's insistence. I remember always wondering what happened to him because he left show business shortly afterwards. Then back in the Nineties I read he had died of cirrhosis of the liver. I guess you can fill in the blanks. At the time Circus World came out, there was on television a prime time series called International Showtime. It was on Fridays at 8 pm. and it was set in a different city in Europe every week. Hosted by Don Ameche it featured the very best circus acts in the world. So did Circus World, but it certainly was no incentive for people to come out to see this when they could see the same thing at home. Also Paramount re-released Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth to a brisk box office business at the same time Circus World came out. So for all these reasons Circus World flopped and bankrupted producer Samuel Bronstein. Nevertheless if you're a circus fan you will enjoy seeing this. But it's not the Duke his fans have come to expect.

《马戏之王》取材自真人真事，休·杰克曼在片中饰演美国马戏界传奇人物P.T.巴纳姆。故事讲述了巴纳姆传奇的人生，他从一个无名小卒，从底层到巅峰，用自…

上世纪30年代，凭借空中飞人而闻名遐迩的上海常福马戏团正四处巡演，其间状况不断，全靠当家人沈师傅（午马 饰）和众位徒弟、女儿齐心协力方度过一个又一个难关。在一次演出中，日寇的飞机投下颗颗炸弹，炸毁了马戏团的所有设施。团员们虽然侥幸逃生，然而国难当头，只得各自奔前程。 沈师傅带着大女儿丁梅（李莉莉 饰）、二女丁兰（温碧霞 饰）、三女丁菊（胡樱汶 饰）、大女婿义天（林威 饰）以及几个小徒弟南下，准备投奔在那里的弟弟。顽劣的徒弟乐义东（元彪 饰）也尾随前来。覆巢之下安有完卵，他们所要依靠之人也各遭各难。义东等人只得瞒着师傅在街头卖艺，由此结识了正直的警察队长唐发（甄子丹 饰），也遭遇着颠离世道的种种不公……

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lense of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.

年少的巴纳姆跟着裁缝父亲去一个富人家，因惹得富人的女儿夏丽蒂大笑，而被富人甩了一记耳光，正是这记耳光，让巴纳姆收获了夏丽蒂的友谊与芳心。跟夏丽蒂有了两个女儿的巴纳姆，为了让妻女过上优越的生活，开始创业，开办马戏剧团。一开始，他的事业经营惨淡，剧院门可罗雀。女儿的话激发了他要做独一无二马戏团的灵感，巴纳姆四处寻找长相奇特但具有特殊才艺的人。很快，胡须女郎、长腿巨人、双胞胎飞人以及精通骑术能模仿拿破仑的侏儒相继加入剧团，因为这些丑角的加入，巴纳姆的马戏剧团开始赢得观众的掌声。机缘巧合下，巴纳姆参加英国女王的宴会，在上流社会的圈子里，他认识了瑞典女歌手珍妮·琳德，在巴纳姆的盛情邀请下，珍妮欣然应允前往美国巡演 。