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Released
1941 · FILM

The Wagons Roll at Night

FOR THE MILLIONS WHO CHEERED "THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT"!

Directed by
Runtime
84 min
DramaRomance
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mark RichardsShot by Sidney HickoxScored by Heinz Roemheld

Also known as

  • Von Stadt zu Stadtde
  • L'Amour et la Bêtefr
  • Il circo insanguinatoit

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