The Hidden Menace (1938) Poster

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English version of the 1937 German film TRUXA
cinemantrap8 October 2015
Otto Kruger, John Clement and Gertrude Michael star in this 1938 English production STAR OF THE CIRCUS.

Released in the U.S. in 1940 as HIDDEN MENACE.

The story revolves around Gertrude as a Viennese circus star and her romances with three men.

The story moves quickly with equal measure of romance, drama, comedy,action and danger.

Fortunately, I was able to obtain an excellent 16mm print recently. I have been able to find over 30 years many 16mm prints of Gertrude Michael films.

She had a busy career starting in 1929 with stage director Stuart Walker and then on to Broadway,an MGM contract in 1932, followed by a 1933 contract with Paramount. Unfortunately, her career was blighted by her alcoholism. Despite this, she stayed active for thirty years, moving over mostly to television in the 1950s.
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5/10
Wa?king the tightrope
malcolmgsw2 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This is a rather ridiculous film.Patrick Barr plays Truxa a tightrope walker who looses his nerve when he falls trying to do an acrobatic move on the tightrope.Partly because of intimidation from magician Otto Kruger,who loves the same woman.So he hands his contracts onto unknown acrobat John Clement.Krueger knows,of course that Clement is not Truxa,but still tried to intimidate him.The ending is fairly predictable.
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