The Circus Queen Murder (1933)
1933 · Feature film · 63 min · dir. Roy William Neill
- Drama
Synopsis
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Roy William Neill
- Released
- 1933-04-10
- Running time
- 63 minutes
Cast & crew
Roy William Neill Director
Adolphe Menjou
Donald Cook
Greta Nissen
Ruthelma Stevens
Dwight Frye
Harry Holman- George Rosener
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Great movie · Tom Draoi · 2024-01-28
Great movie
★★★★ · COPYRIGHT · juplis · 2020-05-20
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★★★ · Murder Mystery Complicated by Racial Prejudices. · Poohbah70 · 2019-08-17
The film presents a good murder mystery unfortunately containing some offensive racial attitudes - that were typical of the day - that doesn't excuse them, but it places them in context, for whatever that is worth. The film opens with Adolphe Menjou (Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt) whistling "Turkey in the Straw" with his breath manipolating a jointed stick figure doll of a black minstrel show type dancer. He is not necessarily racist, but he does buy into the possibility that the missing "cannibal" in a circus troupe ate their missing member. And, the savage "cannibal" are promoted by a…
