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Star of the Circus (1938)

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Film details

Featuring

Otto Kruger Gertrude Michael John Clements
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1938
Genre

Romance
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

Hidden Menace Alternative

Synopsis

Truxa, a tightrope walker working in a theatre, loses his nerve and offers his name and contract to an unknown. When the latter begins to perform under the name of Truxa, he comes into conflict with a magician, an old enemy of the real Truxa, over an exotic dancer.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - The Great Garvin
    
    Otto Kruger
  - Yester
    
    Gertrude Michael
  - Paul Houston
    
    John Clements
  - Truxa
    
    Patrick Barr
  - Hilda Swallow
    
    Barbara Blair
  - Peters
    
    Gene Sheldon
  - Tenzler
    
    John Turnbull
  - Frau Schlip
    
    Norah Howard
  - Ackermann
    
    Alfred Wellesley
  - Theresa, Yester's maid
    
    Dora Gregory
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Direction
    
    Albert de Courville
  - Production Company
    
    Associated British Picture Corporation
  - Director of Production
    
    Walter C. Mycroft
  - Screen Play
    
    Elizabeth Meehan
  - Based on the novel by
    
    Heinrich Seiler
  - Photography
    
    Claude Friese-Greene
  - Film Editor
    
    Lionel Tomlinson
  - Settings
    
    John Mead
  - Musical Score
    
    Leo Leux

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