Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928)

Director
A. Edward Sutherland

Main cast
W.C. Fields; Chester Conklin; Louise Fazenda; Mack Swain; Doris Hill

Genres
Comedy

Description
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.


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