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A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Nosher Powell
- Red
- (as Fred Powell)
Henry B. Longhurst
- Hotel Porter
- (as Henry Longhurst)
- Directors
- Werner Jacobs(german version)
- John Llewellyn Moxey(english language version)
- Writers
- Harry Alan Towers
- Edgar Wallace(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe only double the producers could find for Christopher Lee was the circus' real lion tamer, who Lee described as being "half my height". In order to make the situation credible, 6'4" Lee was shot in close-up, so the height differential would not be too obvious to the audience. According to Lee, he wore a black mask through 90% of the movie anyway.
- GoofsIn the main robbery scene, there are twelve extremely large bags of money, but later at the end the Scotland Yard detective says "well we recovered the money, but not the murderer" and all of the stolen money has been condensed into one ordinary suitcase.
- Alternate versionsVideo version entitled Circus of Fear includes new footage and introduction with John Carradine.
- ConnectionsEdited from Circus of Horrors (1960)
Featured review
Neat whodunit
As almost everybody has already noted, "Circus of Fear" is not a horror movie, despite the title, the advertising and the presence of Christopher Lee (in a secondary role). It's a cross between a crime caper and a whodunit. And as soon as you get over your initial reservations, it turns out to be an engrossing film that keeps you guessing all the way to the end. The story is full of strange, shady, secretive and suspicious characters, but the revelation of the killer's identity still comes as a shock (to me at least - it blew my theory away!). Apart from the sometimes overemphatic music score, this 40-year-old movie still holds up today. And who wants to miss any opportunity of seeing Klaus Kinski playing....Klaus Kinski? This guy only needed a cigar, a few close-ups and two or three lines of dialogue to look creepy! (**1/2)
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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