....repent at leisure" that's the proverb starry eyed trapezist Kay Rogers will remember always. June Travis and Bob Livingston were a popular team for the budget Republic studios. This was one of their best features - Travis plays Kay, the "circus girl" who at the start marries controlling Charlie (Don Cook). He is not well liked among the circus folk although only Bob (Livingston) realises he is juggling Kay along with long time love Carlotta (Betty Compson), the lion tamer, who is determined to remain his only love. Bob calls him a "two timing egotistical heel" and following a fight, Bob fumbles his grip on the trapeze and Charlie finishes up in hospital, his high flying days over. It's clear it was an accident and everyone believes it but Charlie nurses a grudge and eagerly plots revenge.
It may be called "Circus Girl" and June Travis is very pretty but it is Don Cook's film all the way. His first role was as the upright, older brother in "The Public Enemy" and that's how his film career panned out - solid, dependable but with that flinty gaze that hinted he could turn nasty. Nasty he was in this one - putting on a "let bygones be bygones" face and coming up with a wow of an idea for a high wire act for Bob that will leave audiences spellbound. Bob's trapeze stunt will be performed above an open top lion cage and, unbeknownst to Bob, to make it even more thrilling, Charlie has cut the rope so it's a question of when and not if Bob will hurtle into the lion's den below!!
A few old timers in the cast - Charlie Murray and Betty Compson who never really stopped working from the time she hit stardom in "The Miracle Man"(1919).
It may be called "Circus Girl" and June Travis is very pretty but it is Don Cook's film all the way. His first role was as the upright, older brother in "The Public Enemy" and that's how his film career panned out - solid, dependable but with that flinty gaze that hinted he could turn nasty. Nasty he was in this one - putting on a "let bygones be bygones" face and coming up with a wow of an idea for a high wire act for Bob that will leave audiences spellbound. Bob's trapeze stunt will be performed above an open top lion cage and, unbeknownst to Bob, to make it even more thrilling, Charlie has cut the rope so it's a question of when and not if Bob will hurtle into the lion's den below!!
A few old timers in the cast - Charlie Murray and Betty Compson who never really stopped working from the time she hit stardom in "The Miracle Man"(1919).