The Circus Show-Up (1932)
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.
- Date of release
- 1932-02-17
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Lewis Seiler
Casting
- Sally Blane — Maisie
- Russell Hopton — Billy Dooley
- Paul Nicholson — Monaghan
- William Halligan — Detective Hickey
- Polly Ann Young — Irene Duval
- Neely Edwards — Tony
- Allan Forrest — The Hypnotist
- Martin Faust — Yarrow - the Concessionaire (as Martin J. Faust)
- David Leo Tillotson — Bobby - Irene Duval's Little Boy (as David Tillotson)
- John George — Roustabout (uncredited)
- Frank Readick — The Shadow (voice)
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