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 Charles Chaplin 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。很快，查理的喜剧表演天赋让他成为了马戏团的招牌演员。他爱上了善良柔弱的马戏团老板女儿，想尽办法取悦她，但是，老板的女儿真正爱上了的人却是走钢丝的男演员，为了成全所爱的人，伤心的查理默默地离开了喜欢他的观众。 　　查理·卓别林凭此片获得第1届奥斯卡金像奖荣誉奖。

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......

US - Vaudeville dancer Marion Dixon is with her German manager von Kneischitz on tour in Moscow. Her act includes a gun shooting her to the trapeze, the stage director there wants a copy of this act for the USSR. She falls in love with a Soviet enginer, but von Kneischitz blackmails her with her dark spot in her life, she has a colored baby, to leave Moscow.

US - Vaudeville dancer Marion Dixon is with her German manager von Kneischitz on tour in Moscow. Her act includes a gun shooting her to the trapeze, the stage director there wants a copy of this act for the USSR. She falls in love with a Soviet enginer, but von Kneischitz blackmails her with her dark spot in her life, she has a colored baby, to leave Moscow.

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.

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.

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

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

Suzan Pitt被认为是当代最为著名的独立实验动画艺术家之一，她的作品《Asparagus》曾和大卫林奇的《橡皮头》同时在奥伯豪森短片电影节上获奖。 　　Suzan Pitt自1970至今创造了15部动画作品，常常与音乐家合作，其中包括“碗（Bowl ）”(1970)、“芦笋（Asparagus ）”(1979)和“欢乐街（Joy Street ）”(1995)等。她的作品在全世界众多的电影节和、沙龙展、大学和博物馆播放，包括芝加哥艺术学会、徒步者艺术中心和耶鲁大学等地。她曾经获得包括洛克菲勒基金会合作基金（一个专为公共艺术作品所设立的奖项），富步莱特法案基金学者奖和哈福大学研究基金等。同时，她也任教于许多大学，近来在加利福利亚艺术学会执教。 　　Suzan Pitt作品集： 　　(Ca) Asparagus (1978) 19 min 16mm 　　(Ca) Bowl, Theatre, Garden, Marble Game (1975) 7 min 16mm 　　(Ca) Cels (1972) 6 min 16mm 　　(Ca) A City Trip (1972) 3 min 16mm 　　(Ca, F) Crocus (1971) 7 min 16mm 　　(Ca, F) Jefferson Circus Songs (1973) 20 min 16mm 　　(Ca) Joy Street (1995) 　　(Ca) Whitney Commercial (1973) 2.5 min 16mm