The Greatest Show on Earth

About The Greatest Show on Earth

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.

Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 romance film. Its themes are circus, clown, traveling circus, and trapeze artist.

Betty Hutton stars as Holly, Cornel Wilde as The Great Sebastian, Charlton Heston as Brad Braden, and Dorothy Lamour as Phyllis. At 152 minutes long, it arrived in February 1952.

The screenplay is by Barré Lyndon and Fredric M. Frank.

Dumbo, Freaks, and The Wing or the Thigh? make useful companions to The Greatest Show on Earth. TMDB voters put it at 6.4 out of 10 across 292 votes and it carries a NR rating.