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Columbia,
1928. Directed by Erle C. Kenton. Camera: Joseph Walker.
With Marie Prevost, Little Billy Rhodes, Ralph Graves, Alan Roscoe. |
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Queenie Parker, the junior member of a family
trapeze act, is forced to find work in a sideshow when her parents become
too old to perform. Assisting a fakir in a basket trick, Queenie is
resentful of her lowly status, and the sideshow freaks make her life
miserable. A series of accidents befall the sideshow (a trapeze
breaks; a pay wagon explodes), and P.W. Melrose, the midget who owns the
sideshow, comes to suspect barker Ted Rogers of trying to sabotage the
outfit. Queenie, however, discovers that the fakir is the culprit
employed by a rival circus to put Melrose out of business.
Melrose
kills the fakir, and Rogers is cleared. Having fallen in love with Queenie,
Melrose must nevertheless stand by—a sad, mute witness to her love for
Rogers. |
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