THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde,
James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame,
Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, Lawrence Tierney
DeMille's Oscar-winning circus extravaganza is part documentary, part melodrama and part sawdust spectacle, with jugglers and acrobats and trapeze artists and wild animals and Charlton Heston bossing everybody around and Jimmy Stewart as a clown who never takes off his makeup. Also, there's a train wreck.
