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Synopsis: The ambitious Stanton "Stan" Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. The couple had developed a secret code to pretend to read minds and was successful in the show business before Pete starts drinking. Stan stays with them expecting to learn their code and leave the carnival to be a successful mentalist. Stan also flirts with the gorgeous Molly that lives in the carnival with the strong Bruno. Zeena and The Savage, an alcoholic man that eats live chickens that the audiences believe that is a savage, are the greatest attractions of the sideshow. When Stan gives booze to Pete and he dies, Stan finds that Pete had drunk methyl alcohol and not his booze, but he feels guilty for the death of him. Zeena teaches the code to him and Molly helps Stan to learn them. After an incident, Stan is forced to marry Molly and he decides to move to Chicago with her to become a sensation in a night club. One day, he meets
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Production: 20th Century Fox
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1947
110 min
1,798 Views


And I'm not gonna give up on him.

It's the least I can do.

Zeena, you're a real woman.

Look at him.

He's like a dog waiting for somebody

to throw him a bone.

Come on.

Help me get some breakfast into him.

- Hi, Pete!

- Hello, baby. How'd you make out?

We don't have to sleep

in the truck tonight.

I got me the bridal suite at the hotel.

Two rooms and bath.

- Where's Molly?

- I left her at the hotel.

Come on, you two. Looks like you could use

a good, hot bath yourselves.

I'll be all right.

You and Pete go ahead.

Don't be silly.

Huh, Pete?

It's all right.

I've gotta see a fella anyhow.

What's your rush?

You're dead on your feet.

Well, this fella's got something

that'll take care of that.

Here's enough for a shot.

But remember, only one.

Swell. See ya later.

Stan.

Wait a minute, Pete.

Get some coffee in you first.

Promise Zeena

you'll get something to eat.

I shall probably have a small orange juice,

two three-minute eggs...

some melba toast and coffee.

Got to see my money's safe.

Pete just gave you a gander at himself,

before and after.

- I've seen worse.

- You think it's too late to put him in a cure?

I don't know much about those things,

but I understand it takes dough.

- I can get it.

- How?

Sell that code.

- The code?

- Uh-huh.

- I got a better idea.

- What's that?

Let's build up a new act with it.

What good'll that do?

I'm gettin' top carny dough right now.

I wasn't talking about doing it

in this mouse menagerie.

You and I?

Where else would we do it?

If Pete could make a headliner out of you,

I don't see why you couldn't do the same with me.

Oh, Stan.

You think I can make the big time again?

You'd know more about that

than I would.

- How about it, baby?

- Don't rush me. Let me think about it.

Hey, where you goin'?

Come on, Stan!

Give Bruno a hand!

What are you doing?

Cut them three times.

- What kind of deck is this?

- This is a tarot.

Oldest kind of cards in the world.

Pete says the Gypsies

brought them out of Egypt.

They're a wonder

for giving private readings.

Say, they look plenty weird.

Whenever I have something to decide

or don't know which way to turn...

Look, Stan.

That's the wheel of fortune.

- Yeah.

- That means we're gonna knock 'em dead.

- Pete and I never had it this good.

- What did I tell you?

- What's the matter?

- Well, I don't know.

Everything looks wonderful for us...

money, happiness and great success.

But there's no sign

of Pete in it.

How could he be

if he's away taking the cure?

But there's no sign of

him anywhere, dead or alive.

Hang on.

Yeah, maybe this is Pete.

Did you knock this off the table?

- No. You must have dropped it yourself.

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Jules Furthman

Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 – September 22, 1966) was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter. more…

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