Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)



Peck's bad boy
 The third and final instalment of the Bill Peck movies. Bill (Tommy Kelly) is an athletic boy with a mischievous streak, always playing pranks on grown-ups. He has won a cup for a cross country athletic race for the last two years and gets to keep the cup if he wins a third time, but his father gets angry over another prank and bans him from going.

The circus is in town, and Bill and his friends go, and when the circus moves to an adjacent town, Bill goes with them too; a young romance has developed between him and Florette, the girl bareback rider.

But Florette has an accident, and her parents will be sent away from the circus if she doesn't perform; Bill is persuaded to fill the gap, and does the act in her frilly show costume, and a wig.

I expected that the audience would be ecstatic and that would be the end of the film; but more realistically, Bill was awful, not having ridden before. However, now that some of the circus people are on his side, they drive him in the circus chariot to the cross-country race, and gets there just in time to take part -- still dressed in Florette's outfit. He completes the race, still wearing the dress, and of course he wins the cup.

Although very dated now, it came across as a good, enjoyable film. I loved it.

HF May 2006



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