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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option -- to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show. Her medical license lends...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.
3) Miraculous
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A traveling medicine show promises to cure all that ails, but thirteen-year-old Jack and his friend Cora learn it takes more than faith in the miraculous to fix things that are broken.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
None
Formats
Description
When a traveling medicine show rolls into town, it brings with it excitement, the possibility of love, and a chance for Harold to prove his mettle. Deftly balancing Lloyd's brilliant sight gags and thrilling set pieces, which include an epic, knock-down, drag-out fight aboard an abandoned ship, the film is a hilarious and heartwarming high-water mark of early screen comedy.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When their traveling show breaks down in a Pennsylvania village, Doc Watterson and his lovely daughter, Sally, find a place to stay with aspiring oilman Peter Cortlandt. All of Peter's hard work pays off as he and Sally fall in love and he discovers a vein of oil that will make him and all his neighbors wealthy. When a railroad mogul schemes to get the land for himself, the community pulls together to build a pipeline to their dreams.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The presidential hopes of charmless businessman Theodore K. Blair are dead on arrival until his political advisors hatch a desperate plan: hiring look-alike snake-oil salesman Varney (Cohan in a brilliant dual rule) to impersonate Blair during the campaign. When Varney proves to be a bit too popular with the voting public, and Blair's beautiful girlfriend Felicia, this silver-tongued peddler will learn just how dangerous it can be to play politics!"--...
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Professor Henry Whiteoak is a salesman, a con artist, and a cheat. Traveling in a brightly colored wagon, he sells chemical concoctions and steeply priced contraptions to any and all who attend his medicine shows. When he arrives in the small town of Barbrady, Kansas, Henry Whiteoak also shows his talents in a fight and a mind that's sharper than a stiletto. While Whiteoak may be a swindler, he is not one to turn away from those who are in need of...
Publisher
A&E : distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, costumed performers roamed rural America entertaining people and selling vast quatities of medicinal preparations. Usually neither beneficial nor healthy, their elixirs ofter contained opium, cocaine, mercury, and grain alcohol.
In the late 19th century, costumed performers dressed as Indians and exotic witch doctors roamed rural America entertaining people and selling vast quantities of medicinal preparations. Usually...
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