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Bookmark this pageBilly Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Director: Charles Walters
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From Time Out Film Guide
'Oh my God! There she is' screams Ignatius Reilly, the film buff who loves to fan his pet hates in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. She, of course, is Doris Day, here involved in the direst of circus plots ('What degenerate produced this abortion?' asks the indignant Reilly; answer, Hecht and McArthur). A former choreographer and a fine hand at musicals (Good News, Easter Parade, Summer Stock), Walters almost makes up for the three-ring vulgarities with some beautifully staged Rodgers and Hart numbers, although the best of them (the opening sequence) clearly reveals the hand of Busby Berkeley, credited as second unit director.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Charles Walters
Producer: Joe Pasternak, Martin Melcher
Cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger, Joseph Waring full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 125 mins
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