The Big Cage
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Director Kurt Neumann Producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. Duration Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, Drama Cinematography George Robinson Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer Edward Anthony , Clyde Beatty , Edward Anthony Release date May 1, 1933 (1933-05-01) Cast Clyde Beatty , Anita Page , Mickey Rooney , Raymond Hatton Similar movies Clyde Beatty appears in The Big Cage and Ring of Fear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An orphan (Mickey Rooney) idolizes an animal trainer (Clyde Beatty) who plans to put circus lions and tigers in the same ring.
The Big Cage is a 1933 American Pre-Code circus film released by Universal Pictures starring Clyde Beatty and Anita Page and featuring Raymond Hatton, Wallace Ford, Andy Devine and Mickey Rooney, with Walter Brennan and Louise Beavers in bit roles.
The movie was the film debut of Beatty, whose skills as a lion tamer in circuses had brought him fame since his late teens and made him a national celebrity. Beatty, as in his three subsequent films, plays a fictionalized version of himself also named "Clyde Beatty". The movie proved to be one of the studios most popular releases in 1933 and was reissued several times in second-run theaters into the early 1950s.
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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