the circus may well be one of the best of chaplin silent comedy and especially enjoyable from the point where he inadvertently become the hit of the circus when he pinch hit for someone at the last moment . he get all the audience laugh from that point on and deserve it . his clowning here be among his most acrobatic and most physical and and at the same time and there a bittersweet charm to his romance with one of the lovely circus performer merna kennedy . all of the circus stunt be beautifully perform and the story maintain interest a the little tramp go from sudden success to sudden failure and then back again . harry crocker be good a the romantic foil for merna kennedy and a tightrope walker whose act be later perform with even more daring result by chaplin in one of his best act . altogether delightful romp and with the little tramp a a lovable scamp .