1952 2h 32m Cecil B. DeMille

The Greatest Show on Earth

Name: The Greatest Show on Earth
Genre: Drama, Romance, Kids & Family
Released: 1952
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour

★ 6.5 IMDb

Drama Romance Kids & Family

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

Writers Theodore St. John, Barré Lyndon, Fredric M. Frank

Cast Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour

DP John Peverell Marley

Production Designer Hal Pereira

Music Victor Young

Essays and Criticism

In conversation with other films

Notes on Some Limits of Technicolor: The Antonioni Case by Murray Pomerance, Senses of Cinema

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