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Man on the Flying Trapeze
Directed by
Clyde Bruckman
,
W.C. Fields
Not Rated
1935
66m
Comedy
,
Crime
,
and more
7.4
76%
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Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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Cast of Man on the Flying Trapeze
W.C. Fields
Ambrose Wolfinger / Director / Writer
Mary Brian
Hope Wolfinger
Kathleen Howard
Leona Wolfinger
Grady Sutton
Claude Neselrode
Vera Lewis
Mrs. Cordelia Neselrode
Lucien Littlefield
Mr. Peabody
Oscar Apfel
President Malloy
Lew Kelly
Adolph Berg
Tammany Young
'Willie' the Weasel
Walter Brennan
'Legs' Garnett
Edward Gargan
Patrolman
James Burke
Patrolman
Carlotta Monti
Secretary
Arthur Aylesworth
Judge (uncredited)
James Flavin
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Michael Visaroff
Cellmate (uncredited)
David Clyde
J. Farnsworth Wallaby (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
Timekeeper (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Tor Johnson
Tosoff - Wrestler (uncredited)
Florence Lawrence
(uncredited)
Harry Ekezian
Hookalakah Meshobbab (uncredited)
Rosemary Theby
Helpful Passerby (uncredited)
Minerva Urecal
Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
Clyde Bruckman
Director
Ray Harris
Writer
Sam Hardy
Writer
William LeBaron
Producer
Man on the Flying Trapeze Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The classic scene involves Ambrose receiving four(!) parking tickets in a row, but other comic set-pieces are just as effective.
New York Age
William E. Clark
[The Man on the Flying Trapeze] will convince the most skeptical of the universal appeal of the Field's humor.
Esquire Magazine
Meyer Levin (Patterson Murphy)
W. C. Fields trying to get to a wrestling match. Some delicious scenes where he shows the value of his private system of keeping files, in an otherwise normal office.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
A plangent anti-Cult of Domesticity symphony
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