"The Lure of the Circus" (1918) starring Eddie Polo

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"The Lure of the Circus" is an action adventure directed by J.P. McGowan featuring Eddie Polo, Eileen Sedgwick, Molly Malone, Harry Carter, Noble Johnson, Fred Starr, Duke R. Lee, Charles Hill Mailes, James Gordon, Andrew Waldron, Fred Montague, Sydney Deane, Josie Sedgwick and others.
The surviving episodes of a serial by the name of "The Lure of the Circus" have been combined in this film.
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@aadamtx 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the upload! If it wasn't for the introductory and other title cards, this film would have been baffling. The original 1917 serial ran 18 episodes, with each episode a two-reeler. What we have here is all that remains of all that footage. I was unfamiliar with Polo so did a little digging. Born Edward W. Wyman in Vienna to Jewish parents, he worked as a circus acrobat before migrating to films (he did some acting work in Germany also). As Eddie Polo, he was a top moneymaker due to his acrobatic skills, but his acting career essentially ended with the advent of talkies - I suspect he had a strong accent that audiences would not understand. He later worked as a director and makeup artist - his brother was also a makeup artist and died in 1961. The other fascinating actor here is the great Noble Johnson, an African American actor who was famous for being able to portray pretty much all ethnicities. A good friend of Lon Chaney, Johnson appeared in many major pictures, although often uncredited - KING KONG, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, and LOST HORIZON. He also lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1978 just shy of 100 years old.

@yorkmba99 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!