A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his head in the tamer's mouth; and the human cannonball flies around the world.
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Tex Avery as Circus Bandmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Mel Blanc as Balloon Vendor / Firewalker / Monkey / Stork / Gorilla / Elephant / Conductor (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Marr as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
United States 21 June 1940
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25 June 1940
A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire.
07 September 1940
Papa Bear attempts to give the family's pet canary a bath. An MGM Bear Family cartoon.
04 February 1940
Sandy Powell plays a messenger who joins the Navy by accident and has a series of misadventures.
28 May 1940
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers.
10 January 1940
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
04 April 1940
In a Mexican city at the end of the 19th century, Don Francisco, a gambler and a bohemian, almost forgets his wedding and is late.
04 October 1940
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law.
21 September 1940
Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal.
14 June 1940
Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him.
06 September 1940
Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party.
19 February 1940
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
03 August 1940
Combines airplane trips and fashion. Heavy on the fashion.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1940 Warner Bros. Pictures, Leon Schlesinger Productions.
