Polly of the Circus (MOD)

Polly of the Circus (MOD)A trapeze artist falls for a preacher in this romantic drama starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable, based on Margaret Mayo's 1907 play. The circus has come to town and with it aerialist Polly Fisher (Davies), the queen of the air. Distracted during a performance, she falls 50 feet to the ground and is rushed to the nearby house of Rev. John Hartley (Gable), leader of the local parish. Enemies at first, the two soon fall in love and marry, shocking

Written by Lee Kalcheim

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with time left over to romance meek and mild Sidney (Charles Butterworth) and try to save her younger sister

Richard Dix stars as a booze-swigging riverboat captain who takes on the burden of commanding Westerners holed up in a Manchurian hotel that's surrounded by a horde of murderous Tartar bandits

His daughter Jennifer (Davies)

who happens to be Lark's nephew

although in the 1930s

Wallace Beery and Johnny Mack Brown star in this hard-hitting gangster drama of the turf war between two rival mob gangs

White Mischief)

except for one

awaiting only the ignition of the timing device he placed somewhere amid the hazardous cargo

There she meets the first kind person she has ever known