A one-armed circus animal tamer regains his son and the confidence he lost along with his wife..
Is it worth your time? If you like old-school, slightly manipulative melodrama where men cry and animals do tricks, then sure, go for it. If you’re allergic to 1930s sentimentality or find child actors a bit too precocious for their own good, skip this one. It's not trying to change cinema history; it's just trying to ...
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Richard Boleslawski
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"Is it worth your time? If you like old-school, slightly manipulative melodrama where men cry and animals do tricks, then sure, go for it. If you’re allergic to 1930s sentimentality or find child actors a bit too precocious for their own good, skip this one. It's not trying to change cinema history; it's just trying to make you sniffle. Wallace Beery plays Captain Ash with that classic, gravelly exhaustion he was so good at. He’s missing an arm, which is the kind of character detail that screams..."
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