Review of The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) by Noel Murray for The A.V. Club — 08 May 2001
There's not much juice to the movie's central romantic triangle between money-minded boss Charlton Heston and his two star attractions, dueling trapeze artists Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde. Still, Jimmy Stewart does some appealingly subtle work as a clown on the run from the law, and DeMille's narration has a charming, corny, true-life-adventure quality, as he hypes the circus as a life-and-death proposition.
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This review of The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) was written by Noel Murray and published by The A.V. Club on 08 May 2001.
The Greatest Show on Earth has generally received positive reviews.
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