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TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE |
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Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., 1928.
Directed by Edward Sutherland. Camera: William Wheeler, Charles
Boyle. With W.C. Fields, Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain. |
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A farm girl runs off and joins the circus, which is run by Conklin and has
Fields as the ringmaster who is plotting to get his boss into the lion's
cage to finish him off, so he (Fields) can take over the circus. Then
when World War I breaks out, the circus goes overseas to entertain the army.
The circus helps the Allied cause to a great extent by joining the German
army and causing great confusion. |
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The Films of W.C. Fields,
by Donald Deschner
The Citadel Press, New York, 1966 |
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Tillie leaves home for the lure of the lion
tamer in Frisbee's Colossal Circus, an enterprise sporting all the
accouterments: cream-puff-stuffed lions, a skullduggerous ringmaster, the
blossoming apple of whose eye is an amorous amazon of a strong woman, a
"girl with a voice of gold and an arm of iron." The circus picks up
stakes and goes "over there" to entertain the boys in the French trenches,
but Tillie, Frisbee, and his ringmaster get caught in a draft that blows
them into the German Army where, as privates, they find themselves facing
the Allies. |
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American Film Institute Catalog |
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