Action adventure starring John Wayne, Rita Hayworth and Claudia Cardinale. In the early 1900s, circus owner Matt Masters decides to take his Wild West show to Europe. Travelling with him is his adopted daughter, Toni, whose mother ran away 14 years earlier and is now living somewhere in Germany.
This entertaining big-top saga features John Wayne as a circus owner whose business faces an endless variety of crises when he takes his Wild West show on a tour of Europe. Begun as Circus World by director Frank Capra, the film was then entrusted to the much more suitable Henry Hathaway, who makes the lengthy tale race by in a jiffy. On the big screen the climactic fire and the capsize of the circus ship (special effects by Alex Weldon) were amazingly effective and, even if the scale is inevitably diminished on TV, the excitement and tension remain. And what other movie features Rita Hayworth and Claudia Cardinale as mother and daughter, each one constantly trying to upstage the other?
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Matt Masters | John Wayne |
| Lili Alfredo | Rita Hayworth |
| Toni Alfredo | Claudia Cardinale |
| Cap Carson | Lloyd Nolan |
| Aldo Alfredo | Richard Conte |
| Steve McCabe | John Smith |
| Emile Schuman | Henri Dantes |
| Mrs Schuman | Wanda Rotha |
| Giovana | Katharyna |
| Flo Hunt | Kay Walsh |
| Billy Hennigan | Miles Malleson |
| Molly | Katherine Ellison |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Henry Hathaway |
