The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Country: US
Technical: col 153m
Director: Cecil B. De Mille
Cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
Low drama at the big top as a criminal on the run disguises himself as a clown and joins the circus.
Review:
A film which displays all the hype and empty spectacle of the world it seeks to depict, and then expects its audience to get as reverent as narrator Edmond O'Brien sounds by parading before its eyes endless shots of the gaudy trappings of showbiz and extras licking ice-cream as they stare googoo-eyed at the daredevilry. Its climactic train wreck plays like a child knocking his soldiers down, having spent hours setting them up.
Country: US
Technical: col 153m
Director: Cecil B. De Mille
Cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
Low drama at the big top as a criminal on the run disguises himself as a clown and joins the circus.
Review:
A film which displays all the hype and empty spectacle of the world it seeks to depict, and then expects its audience to get as reverent as narrator Edmond O'Brien sounds by parading before its eyes endless shots of the gaudy trappings of showbiz and extras licking ice-cream as they stare googoo-eyed at the daredevilry. Its climactic train wreck plays like a child knocking his soldiers down, having spent hours setting them up.
Country: US
Technical: col 153m
Director: Cecil B. De Mille
Cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
Low drama at the big top as a criminal on the run disguises himself as a clown and joins the circus.
Review:
A film which displays all the hype and empty spectacle of the world it seeks to depict, and then expects its audience to get as reverent as narrator Edmond O'Brien sounds by parading before its eyes endless shots of the gaudy trappings of showbiz and extras licking ice-cream as they stare googoo-eyed at the daredevilry. Its climactic train wreck plays like a child knocking his soldiers down, having spent hours setting them up.