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The Circus
1928 72m G
Comedy
,
Romance
,
Family
8.1
97%
94%
80%
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The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
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Directed By
Charlie Chaplin
Written By
Charlie Chaplin
Studio
Charles Chaplin Productions
,
United Artists
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Cast of The Circus
Charlie Chaplin
A Tramp
Al Ernest Garcia
The Circus Proprietor and Ring Master
Merna Kennedy
Circus Proprietor's Stepdaughter, a Circus Rider
Harry Crocker
Rex, a Tight Rope Walker / Disgruntled Property Man / Clown
George Davis
A Magician
Henry Bergman
An Old Clown
Tiny Sandford
The Head Property Man
John Rand
An Assistant Property Man / Clown
Steve Murphy
A Pickpocket
Chester A. Bachman
Cop (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Cop (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Clown (uncredited)
Jack Pierce
Man Operating Ropes (uncredited)
Betty Morrissey
The Vanishing Lady
The Circus Reviews
The Retro Set
Nathanael Hood
...one of [Chaplin's] most unforgettable and melancholy films, one filled to the brim with unforgettable gags and set pieces.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
A sad clown masterwork that masks its tears with a smile.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
while it is hardly Chaplin's best film, The Circus is packed with enough memorable moments, a few of which rank among Chaplin's greatest comic achievements, to stand firmly on its own
Slant Magazine
Christian Blauvelt
The Circus may be the film that most definitively silences critics who claim that Charlie Chaplin's movies aren't cinematic.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Chaplin's slapstick comedy worked to great effect.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Though not without striking qualities by itself, it serves best as a poignant stepping stone to the auteur's later, more famous projects.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a brilliant combination of light and darkness, tenderness and violence and, yes, laughter and tears.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
Innovative and timelessly hilarious.
LIFE
Robert E. Sherwood
Suffice it that Charlie has gone back to the elementary principles of custard pie comedy, and has proved that it is in this simplified, unpretentious form that his genius is most thoroughly at home.
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Shadow Stage
Charlie Chaplin turns circus performer in a story which teems with spontaneous humor and yet maintains the plaintive heart interest we have learned to expect from Chaplin.
DVDJournal.com
Mark Bourne
In some ways The Circus is Chaplin's Stardust Memories, his reflexive self-observation in which Woody Allen's line, 'We like your earlier, funny movies,' flashes subliminally among the frames.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
most overlooked film . . . contains some of the Tramp's best comic moments
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Receiving his first Best Actor Oscar nomination, Chaplin is brilliant in this slapstick comedy, set in a milieu that fits him like a glove.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It's a beautiful film and perhaps more personal that anyone might have suspected at the time.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
An undervalued Chaplin masterpiece.
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Hilarious-ness-ness
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
It took two years to finish and the result was the same as his other classics: a film about love, fantasy, and daily mischief from Chaplin's legendary alter ego.
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