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The Circus
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy visually inventive silent comedy that balances physical gags with tenderness, vulnerability, and a quietly melancholy romantic core.
- Tone
- playful, romantic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- amusement, heartbreak
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- social class, performance, unrequited love, dignity
- Setting
- early twentieth-century, traveling circus and fairground
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