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Plot

Based on an Edgar Wallace murder mystery this chiller centers on a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of puzzling deaths plaguing a traveling circus and the hunt for loot stolen from an armored car robbery. Suspects include the mask-wearing and disfigured lion tamer, a vengeful ringmaster, an insanely jealous knife-thrower, and a blackmailing dwarf called "Mr. Big." The film is also known as Circus of Fear. A German version was shot simultaneously with Psycho-Circus but used a different director. Though available in color in Great Britain, most of the American copies of the film are in black-and-white.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller
Run Time:
65min.
DVD Release Date:
09/09/2003
Distributor(s):
American International Pictures
Director(s):
Werner Jacobs , John Llewellyn Moxey
Starring:
Christopher Lee , Leo Genn , Anthony Newlands , Heinz Drache , Klaus Kinski
Themes:
Circuses & Carnivals,Murder Investigations
Keywords:
Britain,Scotland-Yard,armored-car,blackmail,carnival,corpse,daughter,death,father,fear,hidden,investigation,investigator,jealousy,killing,knife,loot,mask [disguise],murder,psychopath,scar,secrets,stalking,suspect
Language:
English