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The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Mary Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments."
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1928-10-03
- video_camera_front Companies Fox Film Corporation
- timer Runtime: 100 Mins
- star Rating: 7 / 10
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- info IMDB ID tt0018907
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Janet Gaynor
Marion
Mary Duncan
The Lady
Charles Morton
Charles
Barry Norton
Adolf
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Clown
Anders Randolf
Cecchi
Anita Louise
Louise as a girl
Anne Shirley
Marion as a girl
Nancy Drexel
Louise
George Davis
Mean Clown
groups Crew
F. W. Murnau
Director
Berthold Viertel
Writer
Herman Bang
Story
Carl Mayer
Scenario Writer
Marion Orth
Scenario Writer
S.L. Rothafel
Music
Harold D. Schuster
Editor
Edgar G. Ulmer
Assistant Art Director
L. William O'Connell
Director of Photography
Ernest Palmer
Director of Photography
Harold Hobson
Sound
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