Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1952-02-16) |
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| Awards: | Won 2 Oscars. 9 wins & 5 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $36,000,000 |
| Screen: | Fredric M. Frank, Barré Lyndon, Theodore St. John |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Pусский |
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Casts
- 97182: Betty Hutton - Holly
- 35320: Cornel Wilde - The Great Sebastian
- 10017: Charlton Heston - Brad Braden
- 83400: Dorothy Lamour - Phyllis
- 77081: Gloria Grahame - Angel
- 854: James Stewart - Buttons
- 51310: Henry Wilcoxon - FBI Agent Gregory
Crews
- 8636: Cecil B. DeMille - Director - Directing
- 97183: Fredric M. Frank - Screenplay - Writing
- 97184: Theodore St. John - Screenplay - Writing
- 562715: Polly Burson - Stunts - Crew
- 47755: Barré Lyndon - Screenplay - Writing
- 97183: Fredric M. Frank - Story - Writing
- 97184: Theodore St. John - Story - Writing
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***Delivers the goods for what it is — a big traditional circus flick*** Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus hires a popular Casanova trapeze artist, The Great Sabastian (Cornel Wilde), in order to keep their tour schedule full and he wastes no time romancing his rival fo ....
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Hyperbole is quite common nowadays with a premium paid for hype and superlatives; but this film really does deserve one such accolade - it is a spectacular feast for the eyes. Set in a travelling circus that appears to employ the population of a small town, we are taken on the freque ....
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