I remember seeing this film as a lad on a family outing in Manhattan, topped off by my insistence that we have dinner at Jack Dempsey's Restaurant in Manhattan. Too bad the old champ wasn't there that day or it would have been a perfect Sunday.
Seeing it now on a formatted VHS the awesomeness of the spectacle during the scenes of the circus fires and the capsized ship in the harbor is really lost. It's quite an eyeful and should only be scene in theaters.
And the film would be revived, but we have a subdued John Wayne here and it's not for the better.
This was originally to be a Frank Capra film and Capra bowed out after creative differences with the Duke and some of the Duke's personal entourage. Read the Capra autobiography to find out exactly what they were, but they weren't fully fixed in the final product by director Henry Hathaway who later piloted the Duke to his Oscar in True Grit.
John Wayne was a guy who was usually very careful to give the public the Duke they expected. Even when he stretched his abilities it was done with a firm directorial hand.
We're asked to accept the Duke as a man who had an adulterous affair here. He also does not throw one punch in this entire film or fire a weapon in other than it being part of his Wild West Show. The people went to see John Wayne, but they didn't get their money's worth.
Pity because it would have been great to see John Wayne with Rita Hayworth in a great film. That couldn't have happened when they were younger because of Rita's contract with Columbia pictures and Wayne's personal boycotting of that studio because of his dislike for Harry Cohn. That story I won't go into.
Rita Hayworth who doesn't enter into the film until almost halfway through is fine as Wayne's lost love. She and Claudia Cardinale looked just fine in tights as trapeze artists. Lloyd Nolan as Wayne's sidekick is always good.
Richard Conte is Hayworth's brother-in-law and Cardinale's uncle. This fine actor is wasted here in a part that either was badly written or left on the cutting room floor.
John Smith was a Wayne protégé of sorts, Wayne gave him an early break in The High and the Mighty which he produced. Smith went on to star in the Laramie TV series and on completion of that he was cast opposite Cardinale, probably at Wayne's insistence. I remember always wondering what happened to him because he left show business shortly afterwards. Then back in the Nineties I read he had died of cirrhosis of the liver. I guess you can fill in the blanks.
At the time Circus World came out, there was on television a prime time series called International Showtime. It was on Fridays at 8 pm. and it was set in a different city in Europe every week. Hosted by Don Ameche it featured the very best circus acts in the world. So did Circus World, but it certainly was no incentive for people to come out to see this when they could see the same thing at home. Also Paramount re-released Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth to a brisk box office business at the same time Circus World came out.
So for all these reasons Circus World flopped and bankrupted producer Samuel Bronstein. Nevertheless if you're a circus fan you will enjoy seeing this. But it's not the Duke his fans have come to expect.

George Washington McLintock, "GW" to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also surprised to see that his wife Katherine has also returned. She had left him some years before without really explaining what he done but she does make the point of saying that she's returned to take their daughter back to the State Capitol with her. GW is highly respected by everyone around him including the farmers who are pouring into the territories with free grants of land and the Indians who are under threat of being relocated to another reservation. Between his wife, his headstrong daughter, the crooked land agent and the thieving government Indian agent, GW tries to keep the peace and do what is best for everyone.

Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a Broadway playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 - West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930's and still rare today. Though she was a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plot lines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. American Masters - Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she "climbed the ladder of success rung by rung" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change. Produced and directed by Sally Rosenthal and Julia Marchesi.

太平洋战争期间，一艘美国潜艇在太平洋上攻击日本舰队、船只，并营救落水飞行员的故事。影片意在通过对一艘美国潜艇在太平洋上的作战历程，来表达美国潜艇部队在二战期间做出的极其重大的贡献！

The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted...

太平洋战争最惨烈一役，扭转第二次大战战局的硫磺岛……
1944年6月，联军在诺曼第成功登陆，成为联军战胜的转折点，美军得以将战力转向太平洋，六月登陆塞班岛，七月登陆关岛，麦克阿瑟将军随即又第二度踏上菲律宾国土。日本死守硫磺岛，军力约两万一千人，美军共出动三个师团75000人，舰船495艘，其他尚有驱逐舰，航空母舰等155艘，全力攻击硫磺岛。本纪录片为美军第三司令部摄影队冒死拍摄完成，为当今世上仅存，最忠实纪录第二次世界大战，“血战硫磺岛”之唯一史料！

一个商船的船长被当地的游客从中国共产党里援救出来，他强行当上一只旧汽船的水手，把整个村子的人运往香港。

A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, a corrupt businessman who wants to exploit the area around the town.

In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the members of a PT boat squadron patrol Philippine waters and attack Japanese ships. The PT boat initially had little respect from senior Navy officers but their maneuverability and speed however quickly change their minds. As the Japanese advance across the Philippines, the PT boats become essential in evacuating the senior personnel including General Mac Arthur.

美国西部大部分土地是荒漠，通信也只能靠马快递。政府逐渐将无线电报业务发展到西部，但是许多牛仔仍然不相信一根电线能传递信息。布赖尔和莱利想开辟新的驿站线路，他们向格牵进新月城。邮政比赛即将开始，格雷克为了阻止布赖尔获得胜利，指使人暗中烧毁邮政马车，在布赖尔经过的地方设置障碍，布赖尔冲破重重阻挠，赢得了邮政比赛，新月城成为驿站，久违了的繁荣景象又回来了。by:yakubd.cc

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.

A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Academy Award-Winning legend John Wayne lays down the law and heats up the screen in this 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition of The Comancheros – packed with never-before-seen extras and featuring limited-edition book packaging with rare photos from the Twentieth Century Fox archives.
Determined to bring down a violent gang of gunrunners known as Comancheros, a fearless Texas Ranger (Wayne) forms an uneasy alliance with a notorious outlaw gambler (Stuart Whitman), and the unlikely partners soon realize they must find common ground if they’re going to stay alive!

After a short split prologue showing riches as the root of evil in ancient and modern times, the film settles into 1914 France, where the Orient Express is about to be wrecked when a bridge washes out. Among those on board are Al and Travis, Americans who are traveling Europe spending Travis' money, and Marie, a German girl. The boys save Marie after the wreck and Travis falls in love with her. When World War I breaks out Al wants to enlist, but Travis can't, feeling loyal to Marie, a German. By 1917 Al has enlisted, and Travis follows him shortly after marrying Marie. Accused of being a German spy by a Russian agent, she is sentenced to die but is recognized by Travis, who is part of the firing squad. The town they are in is shelled and they are all trapped underground, during which a minister makes a lengthy parallel to ancient times when the King of Akkad persecuted his subjects and defied Jehovah, who finally sends a flood to wipe out mankind, except for Noah and his family, whom he has instructed to build an ark and fill it with two of every creature on earth.

The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

故事发生在1940年的法国，米歇尔（琼·克劳馥 Joan Crawford 饰）是衔着金汤匙出生的千金大小姐，和实业家罗伯特（菲利普·多恩 Philip Dorn 饰）两人正在海滨度假。虽然外面的世界早已经战火纷飞，但是单纯的米歇尔坚信她平静富裕的生活不会被突如其来的战争破坏。
哪知道当她回到位于巴黎的别墅时才发现，自己的家被一群德国纳粹给占领了，虽然纳粹同意米歇尔继续住在家中，但与此同时米歇尔要忍受来自纳粹的侮辱和压迫，更让米歇尔感到愤怒的是，罗伯特竟然为了自己的利益暗地里和纳粹合作。一天，一位名叫帕特（约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰）的美国飞行员从天而降向米歇尔寻求庇护，他的到来彻底改变了米歇尔的生活。