The Greatest Show on Earth
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Actor: Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, Emmett Kelly, Lyle BettgerBrand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen
Picture Format: 1.37:1
Running Time: 152 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Greatest Show on Earth
Movie Review: The Greatest Show on Earth
Summary: 5 Stars
An epic of the time it was made. Another Heston movie, lots of action.
Summary of The Greatest Show on Earth
A CIRCUS MANAGER'S HIGH-WIRE GIRLFRIEND FALLS FOR A FRENCHAERIALIST. OSCAR FOR BEST PICTURE.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. --Robert Horton
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