W.C. Fields reaped his first starring role in a feature-length motion picture when D.W. Griffith hired him to repeat the part he had played in the popular 1923 stage piece "Poppy." Ads for the movie described it as a "laugh classic" in which an "adorable circus kid and lovable circus
faker take you through the sawdust ring and juggle their way straight into your hearts."
Judge Foster (Erville Anderson) banishes his daughter from the family bosom in Green Meadow, Connecticut, when she marries a circus man. Both the girl and her husband die young, leaving behind a child named Sally, who is unofficially adopted by Eustace McGargle (W.C. Fields), a veteran circus
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Released:
1925
Rated:
NR
Length:
113 mins