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'Big Show’ Fiim Is for Circus F ans THE BIG BIIOW HK*W MM.......... .6«*MUmU Cmtrt Cinl (UkMHiBY MAE TI.VEE Troubles under Use big lop, plus animal and Iropete acts, make up Ihe plot of this film, which could well have been tilled *• The Big Bully.Nebemiah Persoff plays a German who owns a small circus and cracks the whip over employes and relatives alike. With the exception of one son, whom he favors and who dares to defy the Iron fist, his children cither hate or fear him. Papa’s penny pinching 'ends to a tragic accident, a marriage be arranged thru sheer avarice I ends with another death, one , son goes to jail, romances are forbidden, and a number of other problems crop up. Whilo Mr. Persoff gives Ibe best per- ' formance In the cast. I was',1 thoroly tired of ’* papa ” before ,i It was all aver.It’s hardly a happy picture, 1 yet circus fans may find U ! moderately Interesting. Some ■ of the Austrian backgrounds ' are attractive. 1
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