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I remember seeing this film as a lad on a family outing in Manhattan, toed off by my insistence that we have dinner at Jack Demsey#39;s Restaurant in Manhattan. Too bad the old cham wasn#39;t there that day or it would have been a erfect Sunday.\r\n \r\n Seeing it now on a formatted VHS the awesomeness of the sectacle during the scenes of the circus fires and the casized shi in the harbor is really lost. It#39;s quite an eyeful and should only be scene in theaters.\r\n \r\n And the film would be revived, but we have a subdued John Wayne here and it#39;s not for the better.\r\n \r\n This was originally to be a Frank Cara film and Cara bowed out after creative differences with the Duke and some of the Duke#39;s ersonal entourage. Read the Cara autobiograhy to find out exactly what they were, but they weren#39;t fully fixed in the final roduct by director Henry Hathaway who later iloted the Duke to his Oscar in True Grit.\r\n \r\n John Wayne was a guy who was usually very careful to give the ublic the Duke they exected. Even when he stretched his abilities it was done with a firm directorial hand.\r\n \r\n We#39;re asked to accet the Duke as a man who had an adulterous affair here. He also does not throw one unch in this entire film or fire a weaon in other than it being art of his Wild West Show. The eole went to see John Wayne, but they didn#39;t get their money#39;s worth.\r\n \r\n Pity because it would have been great to see John Wayne with Rita Hayworth in a great film. That couldn#39;t have haened when they were younger because of Rita#39;s contract with Columbia ictures and Wayne#39;s ersonal boycotting of that studio because of his dislike for Harry Cohn. That story I won#39;t go into.\r\n \r\n Rita Hayworth who doesn#39;t enter into the film until almost halfway through is fine as Wayne#39;s lost love. She and Claudia Cardinale looked just fine in tights as traeze artists. Lloyd Nolan as Wayne#39;s sidekick is always good.\r\n \r\n Richard Conte is Hayworth#39;s brother-in-law and Cardinale#39;s uncle. This fine actor is wasted here in a art that either was badly written or left on the cutting room floor.\r\n \r\n John Smith was a Wayne rotégé of sorts, Wayne gave him an early break in The High and the Mighty which he roduced. Smith went on to star in the Laramie TV series and on comletion of that he was cast oosite Cardinale, robably at Wayne#39;s insistence. I remember always wondering what haened 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.\r\n \r\n At the time Circus World came out, there was on television a rime time series called International Showtime. It was on Fridays at 8 m. and it was set in a different city in Euroe 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 eole to come out to see this when they could see the same thing at home. Also Paramount re-released Cecil B. DeMille#39;s The Greatest Show on Earth to a brisk box office business at the same time Circus World came out.\r\n \r\n So for all these reasons Circus World floed and bankruted roducer Samuel Bronstein. Nevertheless if you#39;re a circus fan you will enjoy seeing this. But it#39;s not the Duke his fans have come to exect.
