Review – Berserk

Given the allegations about her family life, perhaps Joan Crawford deserved to end her career making movies like this. Here she plays the owner of a circus plagued by a series of deadly accidents. Most of the screen time is devoted to soap-opera-worthy shenanigans, many involving an awkward romance between our heroine and a substantially younger performer. The scheming occasionally takes a time out and we get some footage of a circus act here and there. The production also serves up one of the worst musical numbers I’ve ever seen. For the most part, however, this is just melodramatic and dull. See if desperate