During one of the performances, a furious Klaus threatens to have an elephant step on Angel rather than let her go to another man. Angel, who respects Brad, rebukes Holly for her actions and starts a relationship with Brad herself. A guilt-ridden Holly professes her love for Sebastian over Brad. Several months later, Sebastian rejoins the show, but his right arm is paralyzed. Harry is fired, vows revenge, and hangs about the periphery of the show sowing disaffection, particularly with Klaus. Holly finally has the center ring and star billing, but is unhappy that things turned out this way, and refuses to allow Brad to comfort her.īrad, who runs a clean show, catches crooked midway concessionaire Harry cheating the customers. Buttons tends to him before the ambulance comes, impressing the circus' doctor. Meanwhile, the competition between the two aerialists becomes increasingly dangerous the duel ends when Sebastian removes his safety net, then suffers a serious fall when a stunt goes wrong. When Brad refuses, Holly vows to make her ring the focus of attention.īuttons' mother arrives, to warn him the police are on his trail. Sebastian is attracted to Holly, and offers her the center ring. Sebastian arrives, and is coldly greeted by two former lovers: Angel, who performs in the elephant act with the pathologically jealous Klaus, and Phyllis, who has a dual role as an iron jaw artist and a singer in one of the musical numbers. Holly finds a newspaper article about a mercy killer, but does not connect the doctor who killed his wife to Buttons. Trouble is also brewing for beloved Buttons the Clown, who never appears without his makeup and seems to possess medical knowledge. Holly is heartbroken, and claims that Brad has no feelings. He has been forced to hire world-famous aerialist (and notorious ladies man) "The Great Sebastian" for the center ring display. Brad bargains to keep the circus on the road as long as it makes a profit, thus keeping the 1,400 performers and roustabouts employed.īrad reluctantly tells Holly, his aerialist girlfriend, that she will no longer be the star. The show's board of directors plans to run a short 10-week season rather than risk losing $25,000 a day in a shaky postwar economy. It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama.īrad Braden is the no-nonsense general manager of the world's largest railroad circus. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Story and was nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Director and Best Film Editing. The film's storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts and documentary-style views into the complex logistics behind big-top circuses. The actors learned their circus roles and participated in the acts. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus' 1951 troupe appears in the film with its complement of 1,400 people, hundreds of animals and 60 railroad cars of equipment and tents. In addition to the actors, the real Ringling Bros. James Stewart also stars as a mysterious clown who never removes his makeup, and Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame also play supporting roles. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring and Charlton Heston as the circus manager. DeMille, shot in Technicolor and released by Paramount Pictures. The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B.
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