Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Greatest Show on Earth [VHS]







The Greatest Show on Earth [VHS] Overview


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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It is often said that the only reason, Cecil B. De Mille is the greatest show on earth 1952 Oscar Best Picture Academy voters were hesitant, High Noon, which was recently by the HUAC-blacklisted Carl Foreman won click script.


If you're a circus parades and events in the marquee, "Greatest Show" is to undertake long power sections can be tedious. These moments also interrupt the main plot of the trapeze artist Betty Hutton, the shreds of emotionallybetween the pipe-smoking suede wrapped Circus owner Charlton Heston and Cornel Wilde as a Hungarian accent aeralist ego-driven, the Great Sebastian. When does not change his amorous advances, Hutton actively compete against Wilde for the coveted Ring Center.

Looking for a bit 'matronly, Dorothy Lamour is here, like Gloria Grahame. Both are the most productive of Sebastian, a former lover.

This film is for everyone. For drama, there's a character named Harry (John Kellogg), theobtained as a result of a spectacular train wreck smooshed, Heston is also in this chaos of victims still trapped under some rubble. Former Wild falls and crushes his arm while running to outdo Hutton found dangerous without a safety net aerial attempts. Obviously, the Circus of Life is full of dangers.

There are crimes, in the form of robbery, the crook leads Harry injuries and the death of his co-conspirators, Klaus (Lyle Bettger). In addition, a clown Jimmy Stewartin flight. He's a former physician investigators with murder, now pursuing skins 24 / 7 behind his "buttons" make-up.

For children of all ages, there are animals and clowns, pomp and pageantry. Emmett Kelly sad face in this formulation, since many of the old days Barnum & Bailey are people. Finally we have the stories of adult love and jealousy.

A bit 'too long and not flawless, "Greatest Show" has yet to be seen if only for a sequence impressive derailment, which riseswell and is quite a spectacle. scale of ten stars, give this one six and a half.


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