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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Characteristically elephantine Big Top epic from DeMille, thumped across with a winning brashness and garnering the veteran showman his first Best Picture Oscar. Heston crosses his Moses-to-be with Noah as he leads his 'children' and menagerie cross-country, while Stewart's killer-on-the-lam does a wonderfully affecting 'tears of a clown' number in the true, tacky circus tradition of sawdust, spectacle and sentiment.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Producer: Cecil B DeMille
Cast: James Stewart, Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, Lawrence Tierney, Henry Wilcoxon, Bob Hope full cast
Genre(s): Epics
Duration: 153 mins
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