Circus Fever

{{Infobox film

| name = Circus Fever

| image = Our Gang 1929 Circus Fever.jpg

| caption =

| producer = Hal Roach

| starring = Mickey Daniels
Jackie Condon
Mary Kornman
Joe Cobb
Allen Hoskins
Eugene Jackson
Pal the Dog
Johnny Downs
David Durand
Helen Gilmore
Joseph Morrison
Charley Young

| cinematography = Art Lloyd

| editing = T. J. Crizer

| distributor = Pathé Exchange

| released = {{Film date|1925|02|08}}

| runtime = {{duration|m=23|s=30}}

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Circus Fever is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CircusFever1925.html |title=Silent Era: Circus Fever |access-date=September 13, 2008|work=silentera}}{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226153/Circus-Fever/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520153602/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226153/Circus-Fever/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |title=New York Times: Circus Fever |access-date=September 13, 2008| first=Mordaunt |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=Mordaunt Hall |date=2011 | last=Hall}} It was the 35th Our Gang short subject to be released.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |page=51 |isbn=978-0-517-52675-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/50/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=Circus Fever |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=586 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=7 February 1925 |url= https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/586/mode/1up |access-date=25 August 2021}} Farina contacts "speckled fever," and, in order to escape school and get to the circus, Mickey, Mary, Jackie, and Joe fake having it with the aid of a paint brush. Their parents and the physician are not deceived and punishment follows in the form of castor oil. Then comes the crowning punishment when the classes at the school they evaded have been dismissed so the students can attend the circus.