类型:剧情片 美国,西班牙 1965-05-27
主演:约翰·韦恩 克劳迪娅·卡汀娜 丽塔·海华斯 理查德·康特 约翰·史密斯 劳伊德·诺兰 Wanda Rotha John Wayne Claudia Cardinale Rita Hayworth
导演:亨利·哈撒韦
《大马戏团》是1965年的一部剧情片。由亨利·哈撒韦执导,约翰·韦恩、克劳迪娅·卡汀娜、丽塔·海华斯等联袂主演。大马戏团,又名Circus World、马戏团风云。I remember seeing this film as a lad on a family outing in Manhattan, topped off by my insistence that we have dinner at Jack Dempsey's Restaurant in Manhattan. Too bad the old champ wasn't there that day or it would have been a perfect Sunday.
Seeing it now on a formatted VHS the awesomeness of the spectacle during the scenes of the circus fires and the capsized ship in the harbor is really lost. It's quite an eyeful and should only be scene in theaters.
And the film would be revived, but we have a subdued John Wayne here and it's not for the better.
This was originally to be a Frank Capra film and Capra bowed out after creative differences with the Duke and some of the Duke's personal entourage. Read the Capra autobiography to find out exactly what they were, but they weren't fully fixed in the final product by director Henry Hathaway who later piloted the Duke to his Oscar in True Grit.
John Wayne was a guy who was usually very careful to give the public the Duke they expected. Even when he stretched his abilities it was done with a firm directorial hand.
We're asked to accept the Duke as a man who had an adulterous affair here. He also does not throw one punch in this entire film or fire a weapon in other than it being part of his Wild West Show. The people went to see John Wayne, but they didn't get their money's worth.
Pity because it would have been great to see John Wayne with Rita Hayworth in a great film. That couldn't have happened when they were younger because of Rita's contract with Columbia pictures and Wayne's personal boycotting of that studio because of his dislike for Harry Cohn. That story I won't go into.
Rita Hayworth who doesn't enter into the film until almost halfway through is fine as Wayne's lost love. She and Claudia Cardinale looked just fine in tights as trapeze artists. Lloyd Nolan as Wayne's sidekick is always good.
Richard Conte is Hayworth's brother-in-law and Cardinale's uncle. This fine actor is wasted here in a part that either was badly written or left on the cutting room floor.
John Smith was a Wayne protégé of sorts, Wayne gave him an early break in The High and the Mighty which he produced. Smith went on to star in the Laramie TV series and on completion of that he was cast opposite Cardinale, probably at Wayne's insistence. I remember always wondering what happened to him because he left show business shortly afterwards. Then back in the Nineties I read he had died of cirrhosis of the liver. I guess you can fill in the blanks.
At the time Circus World came out, there was on television a prime time series called International Showtime. It was on Fridays at 8 pm. and it was set in a different city in Europe every week. Hosted by Don Ameche it featured the very best circus acts in the world. So did Circus World, but it certainly was no incentive for people to come out to see this when they could see the same thing at home. Also Paramount re-released Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth to a brisk box office business at the same time Circus World came out.
So for all these reasons Circus World flopped and bankrupted producer Samuel Bronstein. Nevertheless if you're a circus fan you will enjoy seeing this. But it's not the Duke his fans have come to expect.
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DVD电影网评分6.2,算是一部中等的电影作品,感兴趣的朋友可以看看。
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沫汐汐 说:唉,这是我看的第四部卓别林的电影。是目前唯一一部结局让人觉得很惋惜,但是是理所应当的结局,有些意难平。卓别林以意外的方式进去了马戏团成为了台柱子,但却因为自己的所爱最后离开了。他是真的爱女主,所以他放手,他保护她,他把她亲手交给她心爱的男人。女主最难的时候,逃离了马戏团去找了卓别林让他带她走,可是他去找了那个她心仪的英俊男人,让他娶了她。因为卓别林知道自己一无所有,不能带给她什么,而且她喜欢那个男人。唉,所以结局是注定的,但我觉得很惋惜。他对她是真的很好啊,可是爱情这东西不讲道理的啊。
蘇蘇 说:男主意外的进入马戏团,遇到女主后决定加入马戏团,天生滑稽搞笑的男主稀里糊涂的成为了马戏团的一哥,成为一哥男主后保护心爱的女主不受伤害,但女主只是把他当做朋友,当女主在马戏团一见倾心遇到白马王子后,男主很失落,表演也无心,接着被赶出了马戏团,女主知道男主被赶了出来,也跟了出来决定不再回去,男主知道后找到那位白马王子,促使女主与白马王子在马戏团一起生活,男主也离开了马戏团。因为爱,所以放手,只希望她幸福。
秦诺诺 说:2.5星,真是部看了让人格外心痛的电影。。。西部英雄成了马戏团的“小丑”,性感美女已经沦落为憔悴老太。。。当然难过以外也发现了剧本的有趣之处,影射与反影射在这个本子里随处可见。。。虽然不知道哈撒韦为啥要拍戴米尔电影但至少从另一个角度再次印证了导演们的小丑梦。。。
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