Performers in a Budapest sideshow encounter love, greed, and murder.Performers in a Budapest sideshow encounter love, greed, and murder.Performers in a Budapest sideshow encounter love, greed, and murder.
Andy MacLennan
- The Ferret
- (as Andy Mac Lennan)
Agostino Borgato
- Snake Oil Salesman
- (uncredited)
Betty Boyd
- Neptuna - Mermaids Queen
- (uncredited)
Barbara Bozoky
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Jules Cowles
- Robin's Dressing Aide
- (uncredited)
Jacqueline Gadsdon
- Blonde Barmaid
- (uncredited)
Cecil Holland
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Bobbie Mack
- Sideshow Spectator
- (uncredited)
Ida May
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Polly Moran
- Sideshow Spectator
- (uncredited)
Russ Powell
- Konrad Driskai - Lena's Father
- (uncredited)
Francis Powers
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Billy Seay
- Little Boy
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
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- TriviaEdward Connelly suffered from "badly inflamed eyes and a mild case of klieg eyes", prior to shooting his scenes looking into the studio lights. It took several days to recover.
- GoofsWhen Salome (not Renee Adoree, but a double) is dancing for the king, she has her back to the audience. But in one brief cutaway shot she is facing the audience - and it's shot from behind Salome - then immediately back to facing the king in the long shot.
- Quotes
Cock Robin: God but you're a real dame... right straight through to the core. You shouldn't have to live in the same world with a thing like me.
- Alternate versionsIn 2007, Turner Entertainment Co. copyrighted a 76-minute version of this film (plus 1 minute for additional music credits), with a music score composed by Darrell Raby. The film's world premiere television broadcast by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) occurred on 28 January 2007.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Gaslight Follies (1945)
Featured review
A Film Noir Piece from 1927
Although he was heading for a colossal fall from grace (thanks to both the advent of sound and the animosity of his boss, Louis B. Mayer), John Gilbert was riding high in 1927. His first release for the year, The Show, was a surprising success, despite its nightmarish carnival setting that echoes both Liliom and Nightmare Alley. Although Gilbert's part is totally unsympathetic, he handles it well, and easily manages to steal the film from his co-stars, Renée Adorée (who is most unflatteringly photographed and costumed), and Lionel Barrymore (who gives his heavy plenty of presence and charisma even though the role is disappointingly small). Mind you, Edward Connelly, who was so effective as Cardinal Richelieu in Gilbert's Bardelys the Magnificent (1926), does his hammy best to upstage the stars here and almost succeeds. But thanks to stacks of indulgent close-ups, John Gilbert wins the acting stakes all right. Nonetheless he is over-shadowed by cult director Tod Browning's many atmospherically noirish trappings and effects, including a staged John-the-Baptist beheading and a line-up of fake freaks such as a spider woman (Edna Tichenor), a mermaid (Betty Boyd) and a half-lady (Zalla Zarana). John Arnold, who was placed in charge of M-G-M's camera department in 1929, has photographed the film in an appropriate, heavily noir style.
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- May 12, 2010
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- Also known as
- El palacio de las maravillas
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- Gross US & Canada
- $395,825
- Runtime1 hour 16 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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