A particularly young 'Herbert Lom' plays a hypnotist who wishes to acquire work in a local circus that happens to be suffering with financial difficulty. He proves his capability by hypnotizing an escaped lion and safely returning him to his cage. The Carney management decides to use his unique capabilities to hypnotize a local trapeze artist of theirs so that she can perform daring Feats without the use of counterweights.
Herbert Lom has a particularly heavy Czeck accent and a dark wardrobes too rival ''Ian Malcolm'' giving him the Allure of intimidation.
And then there's the colonel played by Frederick Burtwell. His role as the Carny leader, the man who oversees the show and figures. Him in Phil Danton (Ben Lyon) try to promote their new Act and in doing so meet massive success.
The act itself consisting of the main trapeze artist and the much more funny and amusing;"Rico the clown act consisting of his own trapeze stunts.'' Where he's are only three feet off the ground on top of tiny little chairs.
Now the carnival is a great success. Which leads to some resentment on the behalf of some of the carnies, one of which "Dora" drinks a little too much wine and gives her opinion of mr. Stephen Torg.
Then we get to this weird part of the film wherein the carnival purchased an animatronic Laughing Man. You swech him on, he's upperbody bobs about and he laughed like crazy. He kind of resembles a sailor, everyone else around him just starts laughing.
Herbert Lom has a particularly heavy Czeck accent and a dark wardrobes too rival ''Ian Malcolm'' giving him the Allure of intimidation.
And then there's the colonel played by Frederick Burtwell. His role as the Carny leader, the man who oversees the show and figures. Him in Phil Danton (Ben Lyon) try to promote their new Act and in doing so meet massive success.
The act itself consisting of the main trapeze artist and the much more funny and amusing;"Rico the clown act consisting of his own trapeze stunts.'' Where he's are only three feet off the ground on top of tiny little chairs.
Now the carnival is a great success. Which leads to some resentment on the behalf of some of the carnies, one of which "Dora" drinks a little too much wine and gives her opinion of mr. Stephen Torg.
Then we get to this weird part of the film wherein the carnival purchased an animatronic Laughing Man. You swech him on, he's upperbody bobs about and he laughed like crazy. He kind of resembles a sailor, everyone else around him just starts laughing.
I'm sitting there with a smile on my face amused by this as well. There's nothing funny about it and yet it's humorful, I'm not entirely sure how to describe it.
Stephen Torg doesn't like it. he claims that it's cheap entertainment and that he's the only entertainment they need.
If I was the management I tell him to shove it, ''I paid £25 for that animatronic and if I want to use it I shall.
If there's one thing Mr.Torg is good at it's creating division among the people on the Carnival. From hitting on certain women to making jealousies of their former boyfriends. To even making himself a partner with upper management. He then exacerbates the whole thing by buying a used car, the particularly fancy used car.
He falls in love with Mary the main acrobat. Spilling out his life story, feelings in his heart to her.
Although Mary does not share his love. This creates a jealousy within him and using his hypnotic influence convinces her to drop her other stage Act during the show. Consequently this also happens to be her boyfriend who ends up with broken legs.
Now Mr.Delton (the main manager of the show) has to investigate the situation and find out what's going on. This will leave in the confrontation with Torg, Mister Downton tells Torg to get lost. but unfortunately Torg decides he can take Mary with him with her still being under some sort of Illusion.
Delton requires the expertise of a psychiatrist I'm trying to discover what's wrong with Mary. Psychiatrist informs Delton that Mary is under a willfull form of hypnosis and that the only way to get her out of it completely would be to kill mr. Tork.
Stephen Torg doesn't like it. he claims that it's cheap entertainment and that he's the only entertainment they need.
If I was the management I tell him to shove it, ''I paid £25 for that animatronic and if I want to use it I shall.
If there's one thing Mr.Torg is good at it's creating division among the people on the Carnival. From hitting on certain women to making jealousies of their former boyfriends. To even making himself a partner with upper management. He then exacerbates the whole thing by buying a used car, the particularly fancy used car.
He falls in love with Mary the main acrobat. Spilling out his life story, feelings in his heart to her.
Although Mary does not share his love. This creates a jealousy within him and using his hypnotic influence convinces her to drop her other stage Act during the show. Consequently this also happens to be her boyfriend who ends up with broken legs.
Now Mr.Delton (the main manager of the show) has to investigate the situation and find out what's going on. This will leave in the confrontation with Torg, Mister Downton tells Torg to get lost. but unfortunately Torg decides he can take Mary with him with her still being under some sort of Illusion.
Delton requires the expertise of a psychiatrist I'm trying to discover what's wrong with Mary. Psychiatrist informs Delton that Mary is under a willfull form of hypnosis and that the only way to get her out of it completely would be to kill mr. Tork.
As time goes on the circus grows in popularity to the point where it can dwarf even the most magnificent of Broadway Acts(what comes off as a bit queer, considering that the circus caters to a completely different demographic as opposed to Broadway. I suppose it's like Circus-Soleil of yesteryear). During this time Mary falls into an even deeper form of hypnosis becoming almost robotic in her actions.
There's a particularly impressive act towards the end of the film involving this roller skating danceing and ridiculous amount of flips and turns. If it was a modern movie I'd say it was a CGI effect, but such techniques don't exist at this time (or if they do they're in such a form of infancy that they wouldn't be able to do what the film shows off.)
There's a particularly impressive act towards the end of the film involving this roller skating danceing and ridiculous amount of flips and turns. If it was a modern movie I'd say it was a CGI effect, but such techniques don't exist at this time (or if they do they're in such a form of infancy that they wouldn't be able to do what the film shows off.)
Got to say it's pretty impressive.
Torg has Mary performing ridiculously over-the-top and dangerous stunts. and Danton become so dismayed at this that he attempts to kill Torg. only to discover afterwards but a different character ''Dora'' shot him in the head as he was falling to his death. The whole film ends on quite a sour note.
Now I believe that hypnosis is about as reliable as a Communist Government. Oh share it looks fancy on paper, it looks workable, almost as if it could really happen, actually succeed at its goal and make you believe in the impossible. But in reality it's just a bunch of nonsense.
You can only really succeed if the person is willing to give in to the illusion.
Of course in the movies hypnotism is completely real. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to control a lion.
Now I believe that hypnosis is about as reliable as a Communist Government. Oh share it looks fancy on paper, it looks workable, almost as if it could really happen, actually succeed at its goal and make you believe in the impossible. But in reality it's just a bunch of nonsense.
You can only really succeed if the person is willing to give in to the illusion.
Of course in the movies hypnotism is completely real. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to control a lion.
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