The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Reviews

Starring:
Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, (more)
Director(s):
Cecil B. DeMille
Category:
Drama
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Harpier

Charlton Heston may be the headliner, but Jimmy Stewart steals the show. This movie is mostly a soap opera at the circus. Heston gives his standard stiff delivery to circus manager Brad, whose love ...
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Charlton Heston may be the headliner, but Jimmy Stewart steals the show. This movie is mostly a soap opera at the circus. Heston gives his standard stiff delivery to circus manager Brad, whose love triangle with Holly and Sebastian (two competing but lusting trapeze artists) seems juvenile and unsympathetic. *The Greatest Show on Earth* is saved by two things: (1) the behind-the-scenes look at the massive circus machine is truly mind-boggling, and (2) Stewart makes cinematic magic out of the circus clown with a secret. Although he occupies the perimeter of much of the movie's action, he's the most memorable, subtle, surprising, and tragic part about it. As in the real circus itself, the clowns steal the show.
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Cliff T.

Wow! They sure don’t make movies like this anymore. This Cecil B. DeMille spectacular captures the spirit of the “Greatest Show on Earth” with the all thrills, chills, and spills under the ...
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Wow! They sure don’t make movies like this anymore. This Cecil B. DeMille spectacular captures the spirit of the “Greatest Show on Earth” with the all thrills, chills, and spills under the big top. Great acting by the macho actors (Heston,,Wilde ) and beautiful actresses (Hutton, Grahame, and Lamour) and even the clowns ( Jimmy Stewart, Emmett Kelley). The animal acts and train wreck scenes were outstanding (notwithstanding PETA’s moronic demands to remove them from the TV version of the movie) A truly wonderful movie
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Elliot W.

This was a wonderfully exciting film, and the behind-the-scenes narration of Mr. DeMille (as he did in "The Ten Commandments") make this sprawling film epic. The above "complete" cast list is hardly ...
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This was a wonderfully exciting film, and the behind-the-scenes narration of Mr. DeMille (as he did in "The Ten Commandments") make this sprawling film epic. The above "complete" cast list is hardly that, as it omits the great talents (including singing) of Jimmy Stewart as Buttons the Clown, whose face reads like Tolstoy, even under greasepaint, the leggy Dorothy Lamour (who brought her own fan club) as Phyllis and Cornel Wilde as the smooth-as-glass casanova flyer Sebastian. And the best part about this is that my children got as big a kick about of the roustabouts as they did the performers.
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Jim R.

This is one of my favorite shows ever.

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India H.

I am a lover of the old movies where there is a real story... and forme this is just one of the best......

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