The Travelling Players (1975), Capricious Summer (1968), Polly of the Circus (1932), Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976), Command Performance (1937), Paradise Canyon (1935), From a Whisper to a Scream (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Traveling Performers movies.
Storyline: In World War II Greece, a woman (Eva Kotamanidou) and her lover betray her husband, the leader of an acting troupe, then his son avenges him.
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, brother, sister, mother, father, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness...—David Carless
Plot Keywords: retiree, major, priest, wife, circus performer, assistant, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: trapeze artist, minister, doctor, bishop, uncle, melodramatic, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.—Jonathan Broxton <j.w.broxton@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: showman, annie oakley, producer, publicist, journalist, offbeat, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1937. A renowned stage singer leaves the theatre to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer) and Lilli Palmer star in this romantic musical. Also stars Finlay Currie.
Plot Keywords: singer, gypsy, manager, movie star, charming, dreamy, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sent to ferret out the criminal masterminds behind a profitable counterfeiting operation near the Mexican/Arizona border, the government agent and excellent sharpshooter, John Wyatt, goes undercover. Posing as John Rogers, Wyatt joins Doc Carter's travelling medicine show to find the dangerous gang whose boss is stone-cold Curly Joe Gale. But, on the Mexican side of the border, Wyatt approaches the captain of the Rurales to see if they can arrest Gale; however, two Mexican policemen arrest John instead. Can John Wyatt clear his name in time to protect Doc and his beautiful daughter, Linda, and bring the ruthless counterfeiter to justice?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: government agent, counterfeiter, ex-convict, daughter, sheriff, singer, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Beneath the small-town exterior of Oldfield, Tenn., lies a history of shocking violence and terrifying phenomena, as recounted by local historian Julian White (Vincent Price). In the '80s, an office worker (Clu Gulager) nurses a deadly crush. In the '50s, a witch doctor (Harry Caesar) holds the secret to unending life. In the '30s, fighting breaks out in a traveling carnival. Finally, in the 1860s, Union soldiers discover a group of orphaned children.
Plot Keywords: historian, reporter, co-worker, witch doctor, carnival worker, union soldier, disturbing ...
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