Sombras del circo
Cast & Crew
Adelqui Millar
Amelia Muñoz
Tony D'algy
Félix De Pomés
Miguel Ligero
Antonia Arévalo
Film Details
Synopsis
Greta, Nick and Tony are trapeze artists in the Dixon Circus, and apart from their professional bonds, they are also involved in a love triangle. Greta and Tony are good friends, while Nick, in love with Greta, is jealous. While performing their "Leap from the Sky" routine, Nick lets Tony fall to his death, and although it appears to have been an accident, all the circus people give Nick the cold shoulder. The image of Tony lying dead in the ring is enough to make the circus pack up and move on to another city. During the train trip, Greta continues to suffer the hounding of Nick and, when the train is held up, she escapes into the countryside, unable to stand any more of the tension. Sometime later, the circus director engages Ned Lee to replace Tony, and by coincidence, he is the same man who fell in love with Greta when he found her lost near his farm after she left the train. Greta is afraid that Nick will repeat the "accident" during the act, but Ned confronts him and forces him to give up. From then on, the two new trapeze stars are the perfect team both in and out of the ring.
Director
Adelqui Millar
Cast
Amelia Muñoz
Tony D'algy
Félix De Pomés
Miguel Ligero
Antonia Arévalo
Alfredo Hurtado "pitusín"
Rafael Calvo
Carmen Jiménez
José María Blanco
Feliciano Catalán
María Rosa De García
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Notes
The working title of this film was En mitad del camino del cielo. This was the Spanish-language version of the 1929 Paramount film Half-Way to Heaven, which was directed by George Abbott and starred Jean Arthur and Charles "Buddy" Rogers. No reviews were located for the Spanish language version, but it is likely that it was shown in the U.S. Three other foreign language versions were produced in the Paramount studios at Joinville, France: a French version entitled À mi-chemin du ciel, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Enrique de Rivero and Janine Merrey; a German version, entitled Der Sprung ins Nichts, directed by Leo Mittler and starring Cilly Feindt and Aribert Mog; and a Swedish version, entitled Halvvägs till himlen, directed by Rune Carlsten and starring Haakon Hjelde and Elisabeth Frisk. No information has been located concerning any exhibition of these versions in the U.S.
