Life Is a Circus

1960
1h 24m

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Bud Flanagan, Jimmy Gold, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton, and Jimmy Nervo in Life Is a Circus (1960)

The employees of an ailing circus find Aladdin's magic lamp and decide to use it to save the organization.The employees of an ailing circus find Aladdin's magic lamp and decide to use it to save the organization.The employees of an ailing circus find Aladdin's magic lamp and decide to use it to save the organization.

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Shot in 1958, not released in the US until 1962.

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Referenced in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

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Life Is A Circus
Written by Philip Green and Val Guest
Performed by Bud Flanagan Michael Holliday and Shirley Eaton

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6/10

The Winters' Tale

'Life is a Circus' provides further evidence that despite Val Guest serving his apprenticeship as a writer for Will Hay his thrillers were usually far superior to his comedies.

Although effectively a remake of the Crazy Gang's earlier 'Alf's Button Afloat', it more resembles 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', with Shirley Eaton as a country lass in sweater & jeans - who claims that her friends rather improbably call her 'Butch' - as their Snow White.

As the genie Lionel Jeffries provides a satisfactory substitute to Alistair Sim in the earlier film; while the most cherishable moment comes when Flanagan & Allen briefly re team to perform 'Underneath the Arches'.