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A lion escapes Nick Coster's carnival and is captured by grocery clerk Matt Varney whom Nick brings into the show and eventually makes chief lion tamer. When Nick finds out Matt has fallen for his convent-bred sister Mary he makes him go into the cage with the insane lion Caesar. Written by
Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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The surging drama...the teeming thrills...behind the circus scenes!
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Starting with this film, Bogart would always receive top billing for the rest of his career.
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Connections
Referenced in
Breakdowns of 1941 (1941)
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Soundtracks
"Aloha Oe"
(uncredited)
Music by
Queen Liliuokalani
Played during the hula dance
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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."