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| The Greatest Show on Earth |
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| United States of America |
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1952 |
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| Director: Cecil B. DeMille |
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Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett, Barré Lyndon |
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Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon |
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Charlton Heston, Betty hutton, James Stewart |
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| Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
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| Studio: Paramount |
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DVD Region: 0 |
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NR |
| DVD Release: Apr 2004 |
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Discs: 1 (DVD) [] |
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Reviews: "The Greatest Show on Earth" is a heaping helping of flapdoodle served up by one of Hollywood's canniest entertainers: producer-director Cecil B. DeMille. This overripe melodrama purports to be life inside the Ringling Brothers Circus; maybe it's not, but the circus ought to be like this. The actors wrestling with the purple dialogue are: early-career Charlton Heston, as the tough-as-nails circus manager; Cornel Wilde and Betty Hutton as trapeze artistes; and Gloria Grahame (who won an Oscar), dangling from elephants. Best of all, James Stewart plays a clown who--for mysterious reasons--never removes his makeup. (Stewart took the supporting role simply because he'd always wanted to play a clown.) This is a fried-baloney sandwich of a movie: it ain't sophisticated, and probably isn't good for you, but once you start you can't stop. It was the box-office champ of 1952, and it shocked everybody by winning the best picture Oscar.
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