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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Director: Cecil B DeMille

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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.

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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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