Blackball is a comedy movie that revolves around a clash between Ray Speight, a professional lawn bowler, and Cliff Starkey, a rebellious amateur. Cliff disrupts the strict rules of the sport and challenges Ray's authority, leading to a hilarious and chaotic rivalry. As the two competitors clash on and off the lawn, they must also deal with personal challenges and unexpected twists that test their skills and sportsmanship.
When a woman is about to get married, she discovers a traffic light that allows her to travel back in time. She uses this power to fix her broken engagement and change her destiny.
Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but they're good ones, well above the producing Weiss Brothers' average at the time. While "Poodles" never quite parlayed his big-top celebrity into screen stardom, he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circus-themed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO. He passed away five years later in the Catskills, no doubt surrounded by a diehard old-school showbiz community to the end.
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