Nov 29th   
The Circus**       

(US 1928)

The Tramp stumbles into a struggling circus and helps the ringmaster's daughter to romance a tightrope walker, at cost to his own prospects.                
Uneven mixture of Chaplin slapstick and sentiment  - the latter powerful but confusing the story - but gagwise he is on some of his best form.

Written, Produced and Directed by: Charles Chaplin.
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Garcia, Harry Crocker, George Davis, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford.
Photography: Ernest Totheroh.

Music (1967): Charles Chaplin.

Preceded by:
Why Girls Love Sailors*
(US 1927. 20m. bw. silent; An entertainer gets his fiancee back from a roguish sea captain by posing as a woman and distracting the crew. An oddity from the pre-teaming Laurel and Hardy days, with elements of their later work gradually coming to the fore.; w: H.M. Walker; d: Fred Guiol; s: Stan Laurel, Malcolm Waite, Oliver Hardy, Viola Richard, Anita Garvin.)

THE CIRCUS (1928). The Tramp watches the circus leave town, Chaplin's own sly admission perhaps, that he knew that silents' days were numbered too.