Lion tamer Gregory Ratoff adopts an orphaned girl, and the entire circus helps raise her. When she has grown into Kathryn Segava, she marries Ratoff...and immediately falls in love with new audience favorite, John Loder.
Yes, it's that old story, although usually it's the circus's leading clown who is cuckolded. Ratoff is pretty good as the arrogant, self-confident lion tamer, but everyone else is ok at best, with Benita Hume getting a small but showy role.
The overwrought, romantic score is attributed to Alexis Arkhangelsky, and therein lies an enigma. He is credited with the scores of four movies, two of which had Ratoff showing up in the credits. Other than that, there's no sign of the fellow. Google suggested I wanted Aleksander Arkhangelsky, and there was a man that way, but he is credited as a composer of church music, and died in 1924. So that's a mystery. Also, why is one of the alternate titles "18 Minutes"?
Yes, it's that old story, although usually it's the circus's leading clown who is cuckolded. Ratoff is pretty good as the arrogant, self-confident lion tamer, but everyone else is ok at best, with Benita Hume getting a small but showy role.
The overwrought, romantic score is attributed to Alexis Arkhangelsky, and therein lies an enigma. He is credited with the scores of four movies, two of which had Ratoff showing up in the credits. Other than that, there's no sign of the fellow. Google suggested I wanted Aleksander Arkhangelsky, and there was a man that way, but he is credited as a composer of church music, and died in 1924. So that's a mystery. Also, why is one of the alternate titles "18 Minutes"?