Circus of Horrors
Circus of Horrors is a 1960 British horror film directed by Sidney Hayers. It stars Anton Diffring, Yvonne Monlaur, Erika Remberg, Kenneth Griffith, Jane Hylton, Conrad Phillips, Yvonne Romain and Donald Pleasence.
In 1940s England, Dr. Rossiter Anton Diffring is a plastic surgeon wanted by the police after an operation goes hideously wrong. However, believing himself to have brilliant abilities as a surgeon, he and his assistants Kenneth Griffith and Jane Hylton evade capture and escape to the Continent. There Rossiter changes his name to Schler, and befriends a circus owner Donald Pleasence on whose deformed daughter Nicole played by Carla Challoner as a child, Yvonne Monlaur as an adult he operates.Schler manipulates his way into running the circus, taking it over when the owner dies in a freak accident. A decade later, he is running an internationally successful circus, which he uses as a front for his surgical exploits. He befriends deformed women and transforms them for his Temple of Beauty. However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents which raise the suspicions of local police Conrad Phillips among them, who are soon on his trail. ........
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