Actors: Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Syd
Saylor, Warner Richmond, Edward LeSaint
Rating: 2 out of 10, The oldest movie
in my current trek through abysmal cinema. This is what happens when you make a
lion tamer a movie star. I actually attended the Clyde Beatty Circus when I was
a very young lad and didn’t know I was in the presence of a renowned movie
star. I wasn’t. As a movie star Mr. Beatty was a great lion tamer. The plot and
everything else about the movie was staggeringly terrible but the animal
sequences were mesmerizing. Even in black and white and the almost quaint
quality of the filming it was obvious Beatty was face to face with some real, very large, and very pissed off felines. The ASPCA would need counseling if this
type film was ever made nowadays but the viewer is transported inside the cage
and it was startlingly good when it did that. Even a very young Mickey Rooney was
impressed.
MVP: Beatty as Beatty
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