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The Side Show of Life

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The Side Show of Life
1924 film poster, likenesses of Ernest Torrence and Anna Q. Nilsson
Directed byHerbert Brenon
Screenplay byScenarios:
Willis Goldbeck
Julie Herne
Produced byHerbert Brenon
Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
StarringErnest Torrence
Neil Hamilton
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • July 21, 1924 (1924-07-21) (New York City)

  • September 1, 1924 (1924-09-01) (Nationwide)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
with (English intertitles)

The Side Show of Life (1924) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by Herbert Brenon and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the novel The Mountebank by William J. Locke which had been turned into a play by Ernest Denny.

Cast

Production

Ernest Torrence stars in the role of a clown during World War I similar to that of Lon Chaney's in He Who Gets Slapped that same year and Brenon's Laugh, Clown, Laugh four years later. Norman Trevor starred in the Broadway play in 1923.[1]

Preservation status

A print of this film survives in the Gosfilmofond archive, Moscow.[2]

References