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Life Is a Circus is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Val Guest released in USA on 1 february 1962 with Oliver Reed

Life Is a Circus (1960)

Life Is a Circus
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Released in USA 1 february 1962
Length 1h24
Directed by
Genres Comedy
Rating77% 3.8546453.8546453.8546453.8546453.854645

Life is a Circus is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold and Charlie Naughton. A down-on-its-luck circus use an Aladdin's Magic Lamp to try to save their business.

Actors

Oliver Reed

(Spectator at Sideshow (uncredited))Shirley Eaton

(Shirley Winter)Lionel Jeffries

(Genie)Joseph Tomelty

(Joe Winter)Eric Pohlmann

(Rickenbeck)
And :
Edwin Richfield
Peter Glaze
Samuel John Kydd
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