I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Please don't spend money on this.

A Masterpiece!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The Greatest Show On Earth2 Out Of 5The Greatest Show On Earth is a plot driven feature depicting behind the scene politics of the circus which is not interesting enough to invest in it. The emotions depicted in here comes off shallow and pretentious for the most part of it is distracted by the tactics and the plays acted out in the circus where the rest of the material is offered raw and unsupervised. It is short on technical aspects like art design, background score, costume design, choreography, production design, cinematography, sound department and editing. The characters are overstuffed and undercooked which never communicates with the audience due to the crowded screen which frankly everyone wants to get off to. The camera work is decently handled and shot to please and attract the viewers which is clearly visible. The adaptation by the writers is weak and pretentious that wishes to play safe and sound unlike its characters. Cecil B. DeMille; the director, needs some work on the execution skills especially when attaining a balance of commercial and art aspects of the cinema. The performance is plausible by James Stewart and Charlton Heston but unfortunately weren't supported to that extent by the cast. The Greatest Show On Earth is chalky around the edges and completely undercooked at the core; neither does it hit nor does it swing.

In 1952 both "High Noon" and "The Quiet Man" were nominated for Best Picture. It was also the year that the greatest of all musicals, "Singin' in the Rain" first appeared and yet the Academy didn't think it worthy of a Best Picture nomination, (though they did nominate "Ivanhoe"). So what did the Academy choose as the Best Picture of 1952? Why, that was the year the honor went to Cecil B. DeMille and "The Greatest Show on Earth", the biggest and arguably the best of all circus films, as well as one of the least deserving Best Picture winners of all time; not the worst perhaps but set it beside "High Noon" and "The Quiet Man" and it pales into insignificance.It's an epic that uses the real-life circus of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey as the basis for its spectacular and melodramatic plot and it crams a load of stars onto the screen for effect, (Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Gloria Grahame, Dorothy Lamour and Jimmy Stewart, hiding, not very convincingly, behind clown make-up), and when it's on the high-wire or the flying trapeze it's certainly exciting and without the constraints of the Bible hanging over him, it may be DeMille's best film. So is it the greatest show on earth? Where sawdust and tinsel is concerned it might be but not when you have "The Quiet Man" and "Singin' in the Rain" waiting in the wings.

I don't smoke pot anymore, but if I did I'd gather a bunch of friends together, spark up some doobies, and watch this film. It's the unbelievably-perfect "so bad it's good" film...packed with arch, trite dialog and the most overwritten voice-overs imaginable describing the world of circuses and circus folk. What was funny about it? I'll give you a fraction of the stuff: -Clowns who never take off their makeup, ever (and not just on-the-lam Jimmy Stewart, who had to stay strictly incognito due to a mysterious "secret" in his past. Oh hell, spoiler be damned, he had been a renowned doctor who euthanized his terminally-ill wife and was spending his life wanted for murder and on the run from the cops, hiding behind his makeup in a circus) -Every plot twist is a cliché. -Every character has either a very contrived backstory, psychological problems or at least daddy issues. -The circus requires a staff of 1,400 to run it (let's see, that works out to over 50,000 rotting teeth). - It's a grueling 2-1/2 hours long, half of that being filler consisting of drawn-out circus musical numbers, dramatic trapeze "dare you to top THIS" duels, or cute interplay with the circus animals which were doubtlessly abused and neglected in real life circuses back then. -Every single close-up shot of the crowd watching from the stands includes at least two somewhat homely but very All-American kids obsessively licking ice cream cones. -Like the typical DeMille spectacle there was a cast of billions, countless costumes that are all way over the top, and it's shot in that unmistakably eye-popping, 1950's brand of Technicolor that made the colors so retina-burningly bright it seems like they're being laser-beamed into your eyeballs. -Countless midgets are shamelessly exploited as characters, and they're EVERYWHERE. -Famous clown Emmett Kelly makes a rare movie appearance, and rarer still (I read somewhere) he is shown in one scene without his makeup on, but who cares?Yeah, smoke some pot with some pals before watching "The Greatest Show on Earth" and I guarantee you'll be laughing like loons for the next 150 minutes, because this film is so unintentionally, unrelentingly hilarious.

Brad Braden (Charlton Heston) is the general manager of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus which travels the country on their railroad train. His girlfriend Holly (Betty Hutton) expects to be in the lead trapeze spot. He is forced to hire trapeze star The Great Sebastian (Cornel Wilde) to keep the circus going. That starts a trapeze competition and a love triangle. Buttons the Clown (James Stewart) has a secret and is hiding from the law. Harry runs crooked games in the midway concessions. Elephant trainer Klaus is obsessed with Angel who rejects him.It is a technical marvel with many of the circus performers filling out the background. The combination of Cecil B. DeMille and P. T. Barnum results in an extravaganza but the stories don't hold up. I can admire the grand facade but in the end, there is nothing there. None of the actors are doing good work and the characters are too thin. Jimmy Stewart is probably the most interesting but he's a supporting character who is in clown makeup most of the time. All too often, these stories and characters feel grafted onto the circus.