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Step right up for Cecil B. DeMille's spectacular, Academy Award winning "Best Picture", "The Greatest Show on Earth". The master showman brings the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus to the screen via an Oscar winning story. The movie has an all star cast, which includes Betty Hutton, Cornell Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorthy lamoure, Gloria Grahame and Jimmy Stewart. Watch for many famous stars of the big top such as Antoinette Concello, Emmett Kelly, Cucciola, John Ringling North, Lou Jacobs, The Flying Concellos, La Norma, The Zoppes, Fay Alexander and many more. Also you will see many surprise cameo appearances. It's action romance, laughs and treachery all under the big top., culminating in an incredible train wreck scene, that threatens the very lives and livelihood of the traveling troupe. Grab a bag of popcorn, take a ringside seat and get ready to experience the excitement and drama of The Greatest Show on Earth! Cecil B. DeMille's, movie "The Greatest Show on Earth" is certainly one of the best circus movie ever made. Long before filming began, DeMille took the cast on the road with the show, to absorb the atmosphere and learn the lingo and slang of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
STORY: To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden (Charlton Heston), engages The Great Sebastian (Cornel Wilde), though this moves his girlfriend Holly (Betty Hutton), 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. Subplots involve the secret past of Buttons the Clown and the efforts of racketeers to move in on the game concessions. Let the show begin! Written by Rod Crawford.
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