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Fearless Fagan is a story based on a real life lion and his best human friend. Carleton Carpenter plays the human friend and while he's not an animal trainer per se, he and Fagan the lion have worked out a marvelous circus act for themselves.
Fearless Fagan: Directed by Stanley Donen. With Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, Richard Anderson. A man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.
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- Comedy
- Stanley Donen
- 1952-08-15
Fearless Fagan G 1952 1h 19m Comedy List Reviews An Army inductee (Carleton Carpenter) brings his pet lion with him and tells his sergeant (Keenan Wynn) and a singer (Janet Leigh) why.
- Stanley Donen
- Comedy
- Janet Leigh
Fearless Fagan is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and stars Janet Leigh and Carleton Carpenter. It is about a clown who is drafted into the military and tries to sneak his pet lion into the service.
Review by brian BV ★★½ Coming off the success of Singin' in the Rain , Stanley Donen directs this rather peculiar, low-budget, animal movie, which begins as a light-hearted comedy, becomes increasingly sappy, takes a sudden dark turn, before its' obvious conclusion.
- Stanley Donen
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Floyd Hilston, a clown at Owen Gillman's circus, is devoted to "Fearless Fagan," a lion he has raised since Fagan was four days old. Through Floyd's gentle care, Fagan behaves more like a pet than a wild animal, much to the chagrin of lion tamer Emil Tauchnitz, who beratees Floyd for his naïvité.
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A man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.
