Juggling in Movies
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
[Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon]
Twelfth century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich, The Hawk, but in the mountains, guerrillas yet resist. Lighthearted swashbuckling, plus romantic interludes with lovely hostage Anne.
In the last 20 minutes of the film, many circus arts are featured, in
addition to the juggling scenes described below, including dog balancing,
broom balancing, blowing fire, lots of acrobatics, and walking on a pole.
At 1:08:16, 2 men pass 3 clubs for 9 seconds.
At 1:13:53, and for the next minute, there are 3 shots of juggling in the
background, with 3 balls and 3 clubs, with both in cascades and showers.
At 1:21:46, someone juggling 3 wooden clubs uses shoulder throws to
launch them at his enemies.
The entire movie may be seen here.
