Movie Details
Theatrical Release:September 25th, 1920
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Pink Tights (1920)
Movie"No cleaner sweeter more heartreaching picture was ever made A story that is as natural and wholesome as an oldfashioned country dinner and just as satisfying"
Audience Score
When a circus troupe comes to a small extremely conservative New England town the residents go to their minister to have him protest the scandalous fact that the female tightrope walker wears a pair of pink tights When she has an accident and is forced to recuperate at the ministers house he has to hide her in order to avoid even more of a scandal Mazie Darton a highwire performer with a traveling circus longs for a peaceful country life Forced to stay in a small town while laid up with an injury Darton is spurned by the conservative townspeople Rev Jonathon Meek the local parson befriends the circus troupe especially Darton But he too opens himself to criticism from his flock who protest his closeness with the show people Eventually Dartons boyfriend arrives and the pair become closer The parson fades from the scene as a possible mate for Darton who ends up winning the hearts of the townspeople
