The Main Attraction
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Daniel Petrie
Pat Boone
Nancy Kwan
Mai Zetterling
Yvonne Mitchell
Kieron Moore
Film Details
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Synopsis
Eddie, a cynical American drifter, loses his singing job in a dingy Italian cafe and takes up with an older woman, Gina, who invites him to join her circus ventriloquist act. Trouble develops when Eddie becomes attracted to Tessa, the bareback rider who is the sister-in-law of Ricco, the circus owner. No longer interested in his crippled wife, Elenora, Ricco becomes jealous of Eddie's attentions to Tessa. Another problem arises when Bozo, the circus clown who is Gina's ex-husband, attacks Eddie and falls on a knife as they struggle. Believing Bozo to be dead, Eddie flees. He encounters Tessa, who has also left the circus, and the two spend the night in a deserted mountain cabin, unaware that the area has been evacuated for the dynamiting of a dangerous glacier. In the resulting avalanche, Eddie saves Tessa's life and then again flees, fearing the police. But he returns to the circus and discovers that Bozo is alive, that Ricco and Elenora are reconciled, and that Tessa truly loves him.
Director
Daniel Petrie
Cast
Pat Boone
Nancy Kwan
Mai Zetterling
Yvonne Mitchell
Kieron Moore
John Le Mesurier
Carl Duering
Warren Mitchell
Lionel Murton
Golda Casimir
Lionel Blair
Frank Sieman
Crew
Andrew Adorian
John Alcott
Buster Ambler
Gerry Arbeid
Jack Atcheler
Abel Baer
Lionel Blair
Pat Boone
Al Burgess
Carosone & Nisa
Bob Cartwright
Jeff Corey
Gordon Daniel
Jimmy Dooley
Peter Dukelow
Frank Ernst
Arthur Evans
Felix Evans
June Faithfull
Geoffrey Foot
Ben Foster
Evelyn Gibbs
Barry Gray
Bill Griffiths
Bill Hutchinson
Ernie Kell
Jill Langley
Terry Lens
Muir Mathieson
Michael Meighan
Domenico Modugno
Sid Palmer
Roy Parkinson
Geoffrey Parsons
John Patrick
John Patrick
C. A. Rossi
Jim Sawyer
Graham Shipham
Scott Slimon
Neville Smallwood
Jack Smith
Abe Steinberg
Jack Sullivan
C. C. Testoni
John Turner
Geoffrey Unsworth
M. Walters
Gilbert Wood
Film Details
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Copyright length: 87 min. Opened in London in October 1962; running time: 90 min.
