Physical comedy drives this vehicle for thenfamous clown Poodles Hanneford part of a legendary British circus family Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble he plays suitor to beauteous heavily daddyguarded Betty Betty Walsh and the duo try their hardest to elope This is an essentially plotless series of gags but theyre good ones well above the producing Weiss Brothers average at the time While Poodles never quite parlayed his bigtop celebrity into screen stardom he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circusthemed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSES JUMBO He passed away five years later in the Catskills no doubt surrounded by a diehard oldschool showbiz community to the end
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