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"The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952) |
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Jul 01, 2009 at 12:12 PM |
 July 11th, To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly 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!
Filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille may be remembered most for Biblical epics such as The Ten Commandments and Samson and Delilah, but the director also made 17 other motion pictures, and one of his best – The Greatest Show on Earth – is scheduled to show at downtown Peoria's Apollo Theater on Saturday, July 11.
Starring Charlton Heston, Cornell Wilde, Jimmy Stewart, Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour, The Greatest Show on Earth is a great example of the Hollywood epic in the 1950s, when the movie industry was coping with TV competition by producing features television couldn’t do.
The Academy Award-winning film is about a traveling circus and all the romance, glamour, intrigue and danger a tough ringmaster can manage..
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Last Updated ( Mar 15, 2010 at 08:28 AM )
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