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The Bear Tamer

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Sequel to The Flying Circus. Here the bear tamer is central to the plot. Jealousy and attractions as main keys to action.

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The Flying Circus

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The Flying Circus is the most famous traveling circus in the country. The artists performing there are equally famous : rope dancer Laurento and snake charmer Ula Kiri. She is in love with him, but her feelings are not reciprocated. As the circus sets up the tent in a new town, Laurento falls in love with another girl and spares no effort to seduce her

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Calino dompteur par amour

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Unable to resist the fair sex, follows a classy lady down the street to a square where a circus tent has been set up. The circus director, who is also the classy lady’s lover, drops in unexpectedly. She makes him believe that Calino wants to learn how to become a lion tamer. The director agrees. On the performance night, Calino enters the lionesses cage, but he goes into a panic and flees, leaving the door open. Panic and mayhem in the audience and beyond.

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The Lion Tamer's Revenge

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The incidents of the story are laid in Rome. Herman. a lion tamer, and Cleo, his assistant, are the leading figures of a circus that is showing in one of the great Roman amphitheaters.

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The Great Circus Catastrophe

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Count Willy von Rosenörn was ruined and moves to an hotel for artists. He is hired by circus director Winge and learns the job from Mademoiselle Doré. She persuades him to do the « lethal jump » on horseback from a platform hoisted high up in the circus dome, with a final firework next to him and his horse.

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The Last Performance

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A young lieutenant falls in love with a circus horserider. He leaves the army to join the circus and soon becomes the idol of the crowds. His interest in every other woman makes the horserider seek vengeance.

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A circus stowaway

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Orphan Ted falls in love with a circus and becomes its stowaway. He is discovered the following day, dragged out of his empty wagon… But as he is about to be thrown out, he is rescued by one of the circus artists, whose life he will eventually save. He will also ensure his fortune.

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The Four Devils

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Copenhagen. Two poor boys are sold to a circus. They practice with two girls and their first show is a success. Years later, as young adults they still work together, but jobs are getting harder and harder to find. A countess invites one of the young men to her house and seduces him. One of the girls, who is in love with him, follows them…

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