Yoyo

Feb 19, 1965

1h 32m

★ 7.0

Overview

The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

C.A.P.A.C.

Yoyo Trailers

Cast

Yoyo / The Millionaire

Pierre Étaix

Isolina

Claudine Auger

Yoyo enfant

Philippe Dionnet

L'écuyère

Luce Klein

Madame de Briac

Martine de Breteuil

Le domestique

Philippe Castelli

Le douanier

Luc Delhumeau

La dame au collier

Gabrielle Doulcet

Le pique-assiettes

Pierre Moncorbier

Le représentant en farces et attrapes

Roger Trapp

Un artiste du cirque

Nono Zammit

Elephant Wrangler

Pinder

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5.0

Boxing Fever

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Fairground boxing booth where visitors try to knock out the champion and win five pounds, the first contestants is knocked out but the very eager (and possibly drunk) third man knocks out the champion and overcome with "boxing fever" rushes out punching at everybody and everything he meets. (britishpathe.com)

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3.1

Mrs. Pussy Loves Animals

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8.3

Modern Times

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A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

0.0

The Clown Wars

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7.2

The Impossible Voyage

Oct 29, 1904

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

5.9

Roar

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Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

0.0

Afif

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Afif is fired from his job and his home at the movie theater. He looks for a place to sleep but little does he know that he will walk the steps of glory.

4.5

The Enchanted Spectacles

Dec 4, 1909

A parlor full of bon vivants pass around an enchanted pair of spectacles that “reveal the personality and pleasures of the one who wears them.”

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4.5

The Hotel of Silence

Oct 10, 1908

A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.

7.1

The High Sign

Apr 18, 1921

Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.

0.0

The Game of Kings

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An unusual game of chess between two rivals.

6.8

Dancing Lady

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Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

6.5

The Bell Boy

Mar 18, 1918

At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.

6.3

Plane Crazy

Mar 17, 1929

Referred as the actual first Mickey Mouse short. Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.

6.2

The Balloonatic

Jan 22, 1923

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

5.6

Enchantment

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The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.