Life Is a Circus

Life is a Circus is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold and Charlie Naughton of the Crazy Gang. The screenplay concerns a down-on-its-luck circus that uses an Aladdin's Magic Lamp to try to save their business.

The film is generally considered inferior to the Crazy Gang's previous screen appearances.

Cast

 * Bud Flanagan as Bud
 * Teddy Knox as Sebastian
 * Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
 * Jimmy Gold as Goldie
 * Charlie Naughton as Charlie
 * Eddie Gray as Eddie
 * Chesney Allen as Ches
 * Shirley Eaton as Shirley Winter
 * Michael Holliday as Carl Rickenbeck
 * Lionel Jeffries as Genie
 * Joseph Tomelty as Joe Winter
 * Eric Pohlmann as Rickenbeck
 * Harold Kasket as Hassan
 * Edwin Richfield as Driver
 * Peter Glaze as Hand #1
 * Sam Kydd as Removal man
 * Geoffrey Denton as Policeman

Production
Val Guest saidBritish Lion and E.M. Smedley-Aston "called me up and said “We want to make another picture with The Crazy Gang, are you interested?” and I said “Yes.” Because he said that they’d mentioned me or something…so the whole idea was to write a picture for The Crazy Gang. There we were writing for the Crazy Gang again, and all the boys got together again; we made this circus film for which we put up a big tent in Windsor, near the castle and shot it. They were all exactly the same, they hadn’t changed." Guest felt the film "worked, but I think the humour became dated... however much you tried to update it a bit was difficult. It wasn’t a success. I mean I don’t think it lost money, but it certainly didn’t make anything."