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unusual facts about The Devil's Circus


Joyce Coad

She was selected from among one thousand youngsters to play a part in The Devil's Circus (1926).


Bryanston Distributing Company

Among the company's more notable releases was the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Devil's Rain.

Buddy the Woodsman

For more on this issue see the relevant section of the article Buddy's Circus.

Buddy's Day Out

It is one of only three Buddy cartoons so honored, the others being Buddy's Beer Garden and Buddy's Circus.

Chipperfield's Circus

Chipperfield is now living in Berlin and is a successful DJ playing clubs across Europe and has worked with artists as diverse as Peaches, Robots In Disguise, IAMX, Angie Reed, Stereo Total, Planning To Rock, Bruce LaBruce, Heidi Mortenson, MEN, Kids On TV, Milenasong, The Fall, Damon Albarn, Stephen Malkmus and producers Alan Moulder (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins), Flood (PJ Harvey, U2) and Bruce Lampcov (David Bowie, Suede).

Cribb

The series portrayed life in Victorian England, and the programmes included many real historical events such as the publication of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and the sale of London Zoo's famous elephant, Jumbo, to Barnum and Bailey's Circus.

Cymbal-banging monkey toy

The Devil's Gift, a 1984 horror film, exhibits similarities to the Stephen King story and was later re-edited as the 1996 film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.

Devil

The Devil is also a recurring feature in tales explaining the etymology of geographical names, lending his name to natural formations such as The Devil's Chimney.

Dylan Everett

He then played roles in the movies The Devil's Mercy, Booky & the Secret Santa, Everything Is Connected, Breakfast with Scot, For All the Marbles, and made a guest appearance in The Dresden Files as Scott Sharpe.

Edward Sexby

A character based on Sexby was portrayed by John Simm in the 2008 television drama The Devil's Whore, with several significant changes to the facts of his biography.

Frank Muir

"Education, n, That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

Geoffrey, Count of Nantes

Geoffrey was portrayed by actor Paul Greenwood in the 1978 BBC TV series The Devil's Crown, which dramatised the reigns of his brother and nephews in England.

Hei Tiki

It is one of four films (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm and On the Friendly Road) which lay claim to be the first "New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the sound was added in America.

Holly Weber

Since then she began pursuing acting as a full-time profession and has had uncredited background roles in Ron Howard's Oscar nominated Frost/Nixon, Fast & Furious and The Devil's Tomb, directed by Jason Connery.

I Walk Alone

This was the first of several films that Lancaster and Douglas made together over the decades, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), and Tough Guys (1986), establishing the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination.

Juvencus

His task permits of little originality beyond that exhibited in new words composed, or derived, according to familiar types (auricolor, flammiuomus, flammicomans, sinuamen), elegant synonyms to express the Christian realities (tonans for "God", genitor for the Father, spiramen for the Holy Ghost, uersutia for the Devil), or, lastly, archaic expressions.

Love in Slow Motion

In frontman Brandan Schieppati's words it is "a sort of Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets The Devil's Rejects".

Marnie McPhail

Marnie McPhail (born July 4, 1966) is an American Actress and voice artist who is known for playing Maria Wong in Braceface, Annie Edison in The Edison Twins, and Peaches in JoJo's Circus.

Marshall Brodien

Marshall Brodien, known for his role as Wizzo the Wizard, played a wizard clown that performed on WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus and The Bozo Show from 1968-1994.

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

The second segment of the film is a recut version of The Devil's Gift, a 1984 film made by the same director.

Metal Forces Festival

Despite that this event is managed by only one team of 3 people and without any greater financial sponsoring it has had and is having bands like Diamond Head Hirax, Wolf, Pagan Altar, Eluveitie, Pungent Stench, Primordial, The Devil's Blood, Bulldozer, Necrophagist, Blitzkrieg, Desaster, Ruffians and many international performer mainly from the Heavy Metal genre from all over Europe and USA.

Mickey's Circus

3 May 2004: Released on DVD as part of a two disk collection of early Mickey Mouse shorts - Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, part of the Walt Disney Treasures line.

Novocherkassk massacre

During a politburo scene in The Devil's Alternative by author Frederick Forsyth, the KGB chief, asked if he could suppress riots during famine, responds that the KGB could suppress ten, even twenty Novocherkassk's; but not fifty - intentionally using the example to highlight how serious the difficulties would be that the Soviet Union finds itself in the novel.

On the Friendly Road

It is one of four films made in 1935 (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and Hei Tiki) which lay claim to be the first 'New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the film was not released until 1936.

Psychic vampire

Adam Parfrey likewise attributed the term to LaVey in an introduction to The Devil's Notebook.

R. Eric Lieb

Before joining Fox Atomic, Lieb held positions at Artisan Entertainment and Lionsgate, where he worked on such films as the Academy Award-winning Crash, as well as The Punisher, Saw, Saw II, The Devil's Rejects, and Hostel.

Ramzi Abed

The Devil's Muse marked his first collaboration with David J, who created the original score and soundtrack for the film.

Rusty DeWees

Known for his authentic rural appearance, DeWees played heavies in the films: Black Dog – A Stranger in the Kingdom – Pieces of April – Radical Jack – Mud Season – Where the Rivers Flow North, The Devil's Own.

Shylock

Hyam Maccoby argues that the play is based on medieval morality plays in which the Virgin Mary (here represented by Portia) argues for the forgiveness of human souls, as against the implacable accusations of the Devil (Shylock).

Suzan Farmer

Suzan Farmer also had lead roles in several Hammer horror films of the 1960s, including The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966).

The Devil's Backbone

The response was overwhelmingly positive, though it did not receive the critical success that Pan's Labyrinth would in 2006.

Both Tielve and his co-star Iñigo Garcés had cameos as guerrilla soldiers in Pan's Labyrinth.

The Devil's Blood

The group's name is taken after the song "Devil's Blood" by the Swedish black-metal band Watain.

The Devil's Breath

The Devil's Breath is the first of three novels in the Danger Zone series by David Gilman, the second being Ice Claw, and the third Blood Sun.

The Devil's Bris

The tracks "Ex-Lover's Lover" and "When You're Evil" also appear on Voltaire's greatest hits album Deady Sings!.

The Devil's Cinema

Mark Twitchell: a young businessman and filmmaker who aspires to be the next George Lucas.

The Devil's Company

This third memoir installment begins in November of 1722, eight months after the 1722 General Election that provided the historical setting for A Spectacle of Corruption.

One of the fictional characters, not happy about the activities of the British East India Company, refers to it as "the devil's company".

The Devil's Dictionary

The origins of The Devil's Dictionary can be traced to when Ambrose Bierce was a columnist in the San Francisco-based News Letter, a small weekly financial magazine which had been founded by Frederick Marriott in the late 1850s.

The Devil's Discus

A Thai translation of the book titled Kongchak Pisat (Thai: กงจักรปีศาจ) by Chalit Chaisithiwet (Thai: ร.อ.ชลิต ชัยสิทธิเวช) was produced for submission as evidence in a 1970 defamation lawsuit brought by Pridi Banomyong against MR Kukrit Pramoj and his newspaper Siam Rath.

The Devil's Law Case

James Russell Lowell called The Devil's Law Case Webster's "best play."

The Devil's Nose

From its southern end near Neals Run on Johnsons Hollow, The Nose rises from the landscape curving along a bend in the Little Cacapon River.

The Devil's Path

The film has been nominated for several awards at the 37th Japan Academy Prize, including for Picture of the Year.

The Devil's Wall

The subtext of the plot is a Czech legend of a sheer rockface that overlooks the Vltava river, near the old monastery of Vyšši Brod, where the Devil was said to have halted the building of the monastery by damming the Vltava, which then rose and flooded the site.

Vulcana Women's Circus

The show was based on a dramatisation of a story by Uncle Herb Wharton, and was performed at the Brisbane Powerhouse by members of the Inala community, from children to elders, including established performance troupes from the community.

Waterson:Carthy

Holy Heathens and the Old Green Man (2006), an album of seasonal songs on which they were joined by vocal trio The Devil's Interval (Jim Causley, Lauren McCormick & Emily Portman) was widely considered both a belated follow-up and an addendum to The Watersons' Frost & Fire (1965).

Wrights Hill Fortress

The New Zealand horror film The Devil's Rock was filmed in the tunnels and gun pits, standing in for a World War II German bunker.


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