The Devil's Circus (1926)

An innocent young country woman named Mary (Norma Shearer) moves to the big city, where she falls in love with Carl (Charles Emmett Mack), a small-time pickpocket. Mary's gentle nature inspires Carl to give up his life of crime. However, he is caught and sent to prison…

Cinema_Snobb

Love Norma so much, she’s wonderful. More I watch movies with her, more I love her

𝒵𝑜𝑒 ᯓ★

norma looked beautiful as usual. the scene with the lions was so tense & in my opinion was the best scene in the movie- and i loved the bit where norma’s character was selling dolls. i felt so bad for her. there were parts where i felt a bit lost in the plot but overall it…

Poppy

It got a little too religious at the end, but damn that trapeze/lion sequence was amazing.

Marya E. Gates

tod browning did it better with freaks but that movie did not have norma shearer

KG

Benjamin Christensen’s remarkable film The Devil’s Circus is a finely crafted drama starring Norma Shearer as Mary, a naive country girl who gets tied up with Charles Emmett Mack as Carl who turns out to be a criminal. When a robbery goes wrong and he’s sent to prison she’s…

Chris Hughes

A slightly unsettling silent film with predatory men and a very, very pretty long-haired norma shearer in 1910s costumes. There were some cool visuals, like the acrobatic sequence and dramatic close-ups of Norma Shearer's facial expressions. There's this peculiar gothic…

Chereen

I did not enjoy this.

TennesseeJoe

27 years before Ingmar Bergman used the circus world's theatrical elements as a backdrop for jealousy, desires and humiliation in "Sawdust and Tinsel" (1953), this little film was released. Mary (Norma Shearer) is looking for shelter and Carl (Charles Emmett Mack) has an…

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