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Director:
Writers:
Fred Niblo Jr. (screenplay) &
Barry Trivers (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
25 April 1941 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A DRAMATIC SHOCK FROM THE BIG TOP! The surging drama behind the Big Show...a three ring cyclone of romance, drama and thrills! more
Plot:
A lion escapes Nick Coster's carnival and is captured by grocery clerk Matt Varney whom Nick brings... more | add synopsis
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In this film, Bogart received top-star billing for the first time… more (8 total)

Cast

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Humphrey Bogart ... Nick Coster
Sylvia Sidney ... Flo Lorraine
Eddie Albert ... Matt Varney

Joan Leslie ... Mary Coster
Sig Ruman ... Hoffman the Great
Cliff Clark ... Doc
Frank Wilcox ... Tex
Charley Foy ... Snapper
John Ridgely ... Arch
Clara Blandick ... Mrs. ('Ma') Williams

Aldrich Bowker ... Mr. Harry ('Pa') Williams
Garry Owen ... Gus
Jack Mower ... Bundy
Frank Mayo ... Wally
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Al Herman ... Barker #2
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Carnival (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
84 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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This is the first film in which Humphrey Bogart receives top billing. He would never be billed any lower for the rest of his career. more
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Referenced in Summer of '42 (1971) more
Soundtrack:
Coney Island more

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15 out of 19 people found the following review useful.
In this film, Bogart received top-star billing for the first time…, 17 April 2005
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The film was nothing more than a remake of "Kid Galahad," with the hero (Eddie Albert) as a lion tamer instead of a boxer… Bogart walked indifferently through his role as the owner of a traveling carnival whose plot was borrowed from Howard Hawks' "Tiger Shark."

Sylvia Sidney appeared in the Bette Davis as Bogart's troubled girlfriend, a fortuneteller with the carnival… The film was a very disappointing follow-up to Bogart's triumph in "High Sierra," but better things lay immediately ahead as Bogart was now ready for a new image, an image which was to dominate the screen for the next years, an image which found its basic construction in John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon."

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