The Woman for Joe (1955)

Directed by

George More O'Ferrall

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A circus sideshow owner and his midget performer both fall for the same woman. The film follows the love triangle and the emotional complications that arise among them.

tenderbittersweetdramaticslow-pacedemotionalromanticmelancholicwistfulhumanistic

What happens

The Woman for Joe is a 1955 British drama film directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi and David Kossoff. The screenplay concerns the owner of a circus sideshow and his prize attraction (a midget), who become romantically involved with the same woman. The film was made at Pinewood Studios. The sets were designed by the art director Maurice Carter. Filmink magazine called it "a rare movie to not only feature a short statured person in a lead role (if not the lead role), but to have him play a complex, contemporary, three-dimensional character... one of the most fascinating films from the Rank Organisation, and the studio had a lot of guts to make it." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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