| | Greatest Show On Earth DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Romance Movies, Recommended Videos, Classic, Essential Cinema, Vintage, Rivalry, Epic, Showbiz | | Starring | Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Lawrence Tierney, Henry Wilcoxon, Gloria Grahame, Cornel Wilde, Lyle Bettger, John Kellogg, Emmett Kelly, Jr. | | Director | Cecil B. DeMille | | Art Director | Walter Tyler | | Choreographer | Richard Barstow | | Cinematographer | Wallace Kelley | | Composer | Victor Young | | Costume Designer | Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Miles White | | Director of Photography | Peverell Marley, George Barnes | | Editor | Anne Bauchens | | Makeup | Wally Westmore | | Producer | Cecil B. DeMille List all 36 stars
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Life behind the scenes at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey CIrcus, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Stars Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wise. This all-star cast, including Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, and James Stewart, celebrates ... Full Descriptionthe extravagant three-ring circus and depicts the passionate scenes of love and jealousy behind the greatest show on Earth.THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH is a dazzling, only-by-DeMille spectacle of life behind the scenes with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus, the best three-ring circus in the land. The great showman Cecil B. DeMille produced and directed this splashy, colorful look at life under the big top. Charlton Heston stars as Brad Braden, the beloved circus manager who runs a tight ship with integrity and a big heart. In an effort to bring in enough money to guarantee a full tour, Brad hires the Great Sebastian (Cornel Wilde), a daredevil trapeze star, to replace his girlfriend, Holly (Betty Hutton), a beautiful and talented trapeze artist who had been promised the coveted center-ring spot. Sebastian, a suave ladies' man, instantly takes a liking to Holly despite their jealous rivalry. Holly and Sebastian carry on their feud high in the air, with an audience watching, performing a dangerous show of one-upmanship. While the two duel in the air, sparks fly on the ground, and Brad is too busy running the grand show to notice. This gutsy star-studded spectacle was produced in cooperation with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey circus and filmed in a semidocumentary style, with frequent cuts from the full-scale grandiose circus acts and larger-than-life costumes by the legendary Edith Head to real footage of the daily life on the road for the full-scale traveling operation. Jimmy Stewart costars in a gem of a role, as Buttons the clown, who is hiding from a mysterious past. This cavalcade of jaw-dropping visual splendor, complete with lions, elephants, and an action-packed train wreck of a finale, is DeMille at his grandiose best. Look for many small guest appearances from circus stars and celebrities, including Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Theatrical release: January 10, 1952.
Produced in cooperation with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus. John Ringling North, the president of Ringling Bros., served as technical director, as well as appearing in the film and cowriting a song.
Cecil B. DeMille, a notorious stickler for detail and realism, forced his actors and actresses to learn the various circus stunts they performed.
The film includes cameo appearances by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as audience spectators.
Legendary clown Emmett Kelley appears as himself.
Jimmy Stewart and Betty Hutton sing and jump (on a trampoline) to the musical number "Be a Jumpin' Jack!" written by Victor Young and Ned Washington. Greatest Show On Earth Reviews: "Cecil B. De Mille and Technicolor meet the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus in the year's Oscar winner and slam-dunk box office champ..."-- Mike Clark, USA Today
This is the only Emmett Kelly, Jr. video. Hide Description
Greatest Show On Earth | List Price | $9.99 (You save $2.94) | | Studio | Paramount Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1952 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank | 1429  | | CD Universe Part number | 6652401 | | Catalog number | 66174 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 06, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth | | Running Time | 152 Minutes | | Additional Info | Full Frame; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Full Frame; Subtitled |
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