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The Circus Show-Up

7.5 18 mins Mystery   1932
Bryan Foy Productions  
Director(s): Lewis Seiler

The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.

Casts of The Circus Show-Up

Sally Blane

as Maisie

Russell Hopton

as Billy Dooley

Paul Nicholson

as Monaghan

William Halligan

as Detective Hickey

Polly Ann Young

as Irene Duval

Neely Edwards

as Tony

Allan Forrest

as The Hypnotist

Martin Faust

as Yarrow - the Concessionaire (as Martin J. Faust)

David Leo Tillotson

as Bobby - Irene Duval's Little Boy (as David Tillotson)

John George

as Roustabout (uncredited)

Frank Readick

as The Shadow (voice)

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