DETAILED NOTES ON CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S "THE CIRCUS" (1928)

The storyline in the movie shows this. Chaplin’s tramp falls in like with Merna, who returns his passion. Then, a tightrope walker named Rex (played by Henry Bergman) will come on to the scene and Merna right away falls in like with him. Why? Simply because his act is daring and perilous even though Chaplin’s clown act has significantly less pr