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The Big Circus is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irwin Allen released in USA on 5 july 1959 with Victor Mature
The Big Circus (1959)
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Add to a movie listThe Big Circus is a 1959 film starring Victor Mature as a circus owner struggling with financial trouble and a murderous unknown saboteur. It was produced and co-written by Irwin Allen, later known for a series of big-budget disaster films.
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Hank Whirling (Mature) needs a bank loan to keep his Whirling Circus going. He gets it from a stuffy New York City bank, but only on the condition he take along accountant Randy Sherman (Red Buttons) and publicist Helen Harrison (Rhonda Fleming) to help the circus turn a profit.Actors
Victor Mature
(Henry Jasper 'Hank' Whirling)
Red Buttons
(Randy Sherman)
Rhonda Fleming
(Helen Harrison)
Vincent Price
(Hans Hagenfeld)
Kathryn Crosby
(Jeannie Whirling)
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