Man on the Flying Trapeze
Man on the Flying Trapeze (UK title: The Memory Expert) is a 1935 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields as a henpecked husband who experiences a series of misadventures while taking a day off from work to attend a wrestling match. As with his other roles of this nature, Fields is put-upon throughout the film, but triumphs in the end. This was the final film directed by Clyde Bruckman.
Plot
Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president. He keeps track of details about the clients President Malloy (Oscar Apfel) meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. But Ambrose doesn't keep files; all the documents are a huge mess of paper piled on his desk. Ambrose supports himself, his shrewish wife Leona (Kathleen Howard), his loving daughter Hope (from a previous marriage; played by Mary Brian), his freeloading brother-in-law Claude (Grady Sutton), and his abusive, sternly teetotal mother-in-law Cordelia (Vera Lewis).
More details
| author | Bobby Vernon Jack Cunningham John West Sinclair |
|---|---|
| director | Clyde Bruckman W. C. Fields |
| editor | Richard C. Currier |
| genre | adventure comedy |
| keywords | annual leave applejack arrest break in build claim file flat tire force hide love manufacture meet new car night court obituary poison remember report rumble seat sing teetotal teetotalism telephone call vacation wrestle wrestling match |
| producer | William LeBaron |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |