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starring: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Sig Rumandirected by: Ray Enright
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790749570
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 0790749572
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 15577
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 1941
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Description:
The tents are leaky. The troupers are weary. The carnival limps into town and sets up for another show. To the public, the carnival means exciting performers. To Nick Coster, those performers are 'mugs and grifters and riffraff - all under one tent.' Nick should know. He puts the show together.
Humphrey Bogart plays Nick, bringing crisp authority to a movie whose midway atmosphere is so alive you can almost taste the caramel corn. Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie join Bogart in this tale centered on Nick and an up-and-coming lion tamer (Albert) he discovers. The story, a reworking of 1937's Kid Galahad, is a superb example of how studio-system filmmakers kept successful plotlines rolling. Bogart's career was finally rolling, too. His next film would make him an undisputed star. The title: The Maltese Falcon. Year: 1941 Director: Ray Enright Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sydney, Eddie Albert Special Feature: Original Theatrical Trailer
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Rating: - Bogie Under The Big Top
"The Wagons Roll at Night", would never be included in any retrospectives of the classic body of work by Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart and indeed it couldn't help but pale into insignificance compared to the two classics Bogie made both before and after this effort, namely "High Sierra", and the unforgettable "The Maltese Falcon". Viewed on its own merits however minor they might be, it makes for pleasing entertainment that really is a good illustration of the studio product that made up the major ... Read More
Rating: - MEDIOCRE BOGART FLICK.
This is actually a remake of the 1937 Bette Davis/Humphrey Bogart film KID GALAHAD; here the action is transformed from the boxing world to the circus world. In this one, Bogie's the owner of a run-down carnival which he desperately tries to keep his convent - schooled sis, Joan Leslie away from. By keeping her on a distant farm, he feels he can protect her from the evils that the carnival atmosphere breeds. Eddie Albert is hired by Bogart for the carnival because of the former's ease with which he ... Read More
Rating: - From Boxing to the Circus
If you've seen Kid Galahad (also with Humphrey Bogart) then you already know the story of Wagons Roll at Night. It's a remake which follows the same plot structure, but switches the subject from boxing to the circus. Bogart runs a circus, and Sylvia Sidney is his girlfriend / fortune teller. Eddie Albert joins the circus as a gifted lion tamer(!). Bogart doesn't have a high opinion of circus people (calls them gypsies), so he tries to keep his people away from his young sister, Joan Leslie. But ... Read More
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