The Side Show of Life

The Side Show of Life
	File:The Side Show of Life.jpg 1924 film poster, likenesses of Ernest Torrence and Anna Q. Nilsson
Directed by	Herbert Brenon
Produced by	Herbert Brenon; Jesse L. Lasky; Adolph Zukor
Screenplay by	Scenarios:; Willis Goldbeck; Julie Herne
Based on	The Mountebank (novel); by William J. Locke; The Mountebank (play); by Ernest Denny
Starring	Ernest Torrence; Neil Hamilton
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Production; company	Famous Players-Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> July 21, 1924 (New York City); ; ; ; ; ; <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> September 1, 1924 (Nationwide); ; ; ; ;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film; with (English intertitles)

The Side Show of Life (1924) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, directed by Herbert Brenon and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the novel The Mountebank by William J. Locke which had been turned into a play by Ernest Denny.

Ernest Torrence stars in the role of a clown during World War I similar to that of Lon Chaney's in He Who Gets Slapped that same year and Brenon's Laugh, Clown, Laugh four years later. Norman Trevor starred in the Broadway play in 1923.^[1] This film may or may not be a lost film as evidence of a print in Gosfilmofond in Moscow has come forth.^[2]

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