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The Greatest Show on Earth

Released Jan 10, 1952

2h 32m

Drama

Romance

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"The Greatest Show on Earth" is a dazzling spectacle of life behind the scenes with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus, the best three-ring circus in the land. Celebrates the extravagant three-ring circus and depicts the passionate scenes of love and jealousy behind the greatest show on Earth.

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Critics Consensus

The Greatest Show on Earth is melodramatic, short on plot, excessively lengthy and bogged down with clichés, but not without a certain innocent charm.

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Blu B

The only way I can see this being a Best Picture winner is if you turn your brain off and just focus on the lavish colors, production values, and pur spectacle. In that regard yeah it's a masterpiece but this is all sizzle and no steak. The pacing is terrible, it starts out entertaining enough kind of like your actually watching a circus and it's not half bad but than it just starts to drag because the circus act scenes just start to get repetitive because you've seen it already and the drama never adds up to anything. Rinse and repeat, drama than a long 10 plus minute take of the circus performance that adds nothing to the story and if it does has no reason to be as long as it is. This easily should've been 90 minutes. The editing isn't good either. It feels like your watching a compilation of circus performances mixed with a bad melodrama about characters that is done Robert Altman style but isn't skilled enough to make it all work. None of the storylines really ever add up to anything meaningful and it feels like there really isn't any central character ot theme to any of it. Everything else is just ok. The music is a mix of circus music and generic Golden Era sounding tracks. The production value is insane but it gets so repetitive at points when it shows the tricks because you've seen it all before and it does work at first. The drama is so over the top at points like Buttons being a killer and the train crash. This really shows DeMilles worst tendencies as a director for bombastic productions but lacking substance. This should have just been a 90 minute compilation of circus performances and make it into a musical hybrid. It still owuld'nt be a masterpiece but at least it would'nt be the bloated unfocused over the top mess it is. I really can't recommend this to anyone.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/03/24

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Selene P

This was a classic my grandmother and I loved to watch. It won an Academy Award for best picture. It gives you drama, theatrics, secrecy and music. You get a better appreciation for the Ringling Bros circus acts. I watch it with my daughter now.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/27/23

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Patricia G

The good kind of movie with love, mystery and excitement without bad language and gore

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/21/23

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Pam K

This movie is a history lesson on the now bygone days of the circus. What a spectacular show they put on back in their heyday. I'm old enough to have witnessed a three ring circus and It was thrilling! The story line isn't all that interesting but the massive size of the circus with all the animals and performers certainly is.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/18/23

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CodyZamboni

Watchable, but overlong circus soap opera. The story bored me. I was more fascinated by the logistics of doing a circus ---- setting it up, taking it down, and taking it on the road. And I was really happy to see Gloria Grahame ---- sooo pretty and sexy.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/12/23

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Jared Z

Though undeniably entertaining and full of Cecil B. Demille's trademark pomp and spectacle, there's just not enough of a story to save The Greatest Show on Earth from being what it really is: a great big wonderful mess.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/30/22

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Cecil B. DeMille

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Betty Hutton

Holly

Charlton Heston

Marc Braden

Cornel Wilde

The Great Sebastien

Dorothy Lamour

Phyllis

Gloria Grahame

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The Greatest Show on Earth: Official Clip - You're a Jealous Fool

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Pauline Kael

New Yorker

A huge, mawkish, trite circus movie directed by Cecil B. De Mille in a neo-Biblical style.

Jul 28, 2022

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Times (UK)

Curious it is that, in spite of all the scenes. blaringly, glaringly effective which belong specifically to the sawdust ring, both Mr. de Mille and The Greatest Show on Earth are most themselves in the scene of the railway disaster.

Apr 1, 2021

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Edwin Schallert

Los Angeles Times

De Mille provides the maximum of entertainment in his production, not to speak of glamour, and above all the spirit that forever lurks under the big top.

Apr 1, 2021

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Mark Johnson

Awards Daily

DeMille was as big as the pictures he made – the ringleader of the Hollywood circus

Jun 27, 2023

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James Wegg

JWR

Most of the comic relief (so very Shakespeare without the telling lines) is Buttons the Clown, who never takes off his makeup... James Stewart has fun with the role.

Rated: 3.5/5

Dec 29, 2021

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Howard McClay

Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)

One of the greatest entertainment values to hit the screen in years.

Jul 13, 2021

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Synopsis

"The Greatest Show on Earth" is a dazzling spectacle of life behind the scenes with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus, the best three-ring circus in the land. Celebrates the extravagant three-ring circus and depicts the passionate scenes of love and jealousy behind the greatest show on Earth.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Screenwriter: Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett, Fredric M. Frank, Barré Lyndon, Theodore St. John
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 10, 1952, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2011
Runtime: 2h 32m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)

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