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| runtime = 84 minutes| country = United Kingdom| language = English| budget = }}Life is a Circus is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Val GuestBOOK, Alan Burton, Steve Chibnall, Historical Dictionary of British Cinema,books.google.com/books?id=Q8SRjwJqwukC&pg=PA194, 11 July 2013, Scarecrow Press, 978-0-8108-8026-9, 194, and starring Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold and Charlie Naughton of the Crazy Gang. The screenplay concerns a down-on-its-luck circus that uses an Aladdin’s Magic Lamp to try to save their business.The film is generally considered inferior to the Crazy Gang’s previous screen appearances.BOOK, David R. Sutton, A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy 1929-1939,books.google.com/books?id=pIRZAAAAMAAJ, January 2000, University of Exeter Press, 978-0-85989-603-0, 142,

Cast

• Bud Flanagan as Bud
• Teddy Knox as Sebastian
• Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
• Jimmy Gold as Goldie
• Charlie Naughton as Charlie
• Eddie Gray as Eddie
• Chesney Allen as Ches
• Shirley Eaton as Shirley Winter
• Michael Holliday as Carl Rickenbeck
• Lionel Jeffries as Genie
• Joseph Tomelty as Joe Winter
• Eric Pohlmann as Rickenbeck
• Harold Kasket as Hassan
• Edwin Richfield as Driver
• Peter Glaze as Hand 1
• Sam Kydd as Removal man
• Geoffrey Denton as Policeman

Production

Val Guest saidBritish Lion and E.M. Smedley-Aston “called me up and said “We want to make another picture with The Crazy Gang, are you interested?” and I said “Yes.” Because he said that they’d mentioned me or something…so the whole idea was to write a picture for The Crazy Gang. There we were writing for the Crazy Gang again, and all the boys got together again; we made this circus film for which we put up a big tent in Windsor, near the castle and shot it. They were all exactly the same, they hadn’t changed.” Guest felt the film “worked, but I think the humour became dated... however much you tried to update it a bit was difficult. It wasn’t a success. I mean I don’t think it lost money, but it certainly didn’t make anything.“WEB,historyproject.org.uk/interview/val-guest, British Entertainment History Project, Roy, Fowler, 1988, Interview with Val Guest,

References

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External links

• {{IMDb title|0051863|Life Is a Circus}}

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