The Greatest Show on Earth - Trailer [1952] [25th Oscar Best Picture]

[delinellychan]

2:36 Charlton Heston was very handsome ♥_♥

[minralb]

I was a high school kid in Sarasota FL when this film was made there at the Ringling Circus winter quarters. After the on-location filming was completed members of the cast, horse drawn circus wagons, caged animals, clowns, elephants, etc from the circus put on a parade down Main Street. I was about 15 and anxious to see Betty Hutton up close wearing that short skirt outfit. What a disappointment she turned out to be. Up close she looked like a weatherbeaten old hag with a really bad hangover.

[MrHOOKBOY]

Thumbs Up if Steven Spielberg has sent you here!

[Marcalot3k]

It's way better than the 2005 winner 'Crap' I mean 'Crash'...

[yogafan6500]

The theme song was later used in the legendary TV show Bozo's Circus from 1961 to 2001.

[NGTGO]

This movie is considered to be one of the worst Best Picture Oscar winners. I honestly don't believe this to be so when I've seen other movies win Best Picture that I did not believe to be deserving. Yes High Noon is a wonderful movie and so is Singing in the Rain, but this movie truly makes you feel like you are at an actual circus and the story of the characters are simply wonderful.

[vadimzdonutube]

i dont get how this film beat high noon and the quiet man for best picture and singin in the rain wasnt even nominated.

[reptongeek]

@vadimzdonutube The reason was there was a blacklist in Hollywood at the time and 'High Noon' was (I think) written by someone on the blacklist. TGSHOE was the big box office sensation of the year and thus gave the Academy a more 'savoury' choice if you like

[reptongeek]

@vadimzdonutube Although to be fair when I saw it I felt it could have lived up to it's title had been not as long and not as melodramatic

[EmmaBott]

I LOOOOVE THIS FILM! definitely in my top 10 :D

[ShinbiBelldandy]

Ok, I'm confused...WHY is this movie considered one of the "worsts"?! I loved it as a kid & seeing this for the first time makes me see all the though, hard work & effort put into this movie by the actors & film makers. I dont think movies today have a 10th of what Mr. DeMillle put into his movie! This was awesome & I think it deserved the Oscar & definitely more respect!!

By the way, I'm 24! I appreciate good movies & this is one of them!

[vadimzdonutube]

@ShinbiBelldandy so u think it deserved best picture over singin in the rain or high noon?

[ShinbiBelldandy]

@vadimzdonutube I didnt say that. I said I dont see why it's one of the worsts. I love the Oscars because it's one of few industry votes that the winners are picked by their peers. If the majority goes for one over the other, it happens. Singing in the Rain was an awesome film & yes it was better than the Greatest Show on Earth, but this is what the majority picked.

[Thoralmir]

Now THIS is a circus, before PETA and political correctness ruined it!

[JackKlompus13]

@Thoralmir

You're a moron. Considerable abuse and suffering occurs in circuses, and you would have to be some sort of sadist to justify it for mediocre entertainment.

[Thoralmir]

@JackKlompus13 Considerable suffuring and abuse occurs in all forms of entertainment theses days. Especially reality shows. Or any show that depicts people and animals getting hurt. Just as the guys on Jackass. And yet you don't bother to call fans of shows like that sadists, do you?

[Thoralmir]

@JackKlompus13 And if you really feel so stronly about it, than get out there and actually DO something about it instead of sitting around at your computer bitching at others for expressing a moment of nostalgia. There is nothing worse than someone who complains about a problem but is unwilling to get up and solve it themselves.

[JackKlompus13]

@Thoralmir

As much as that may be reasonable, there's not really anything I can personally do being that I lack the opportunity.

[Thoralmir]

@JackKlompus13 Thats no excuse! There's ALWAYS something you can do! You can take a page right out of this movie and derail a circus train for example! Hey, if there is as much evil and suffering as you claim in these circuses, than they have it comming to them, right?

[JackKlompus13]

@Thoralmir

Derail a circus train?! I don't really want to become a terrorist...

[etbella3]

@Thoralmir Expressing support for the animal saviors of the world IS doing something. As Denny Crane said on Boston Legal, "Rich people can do whatever they want". When we buy DVDs and tickets to the movies, we help rich people get even richer. Little things mean a lot.

[holertogni]

i like this movie i was circus artist and i saw the Ringling museum in Sarasota wonderfull...

[Spike81635]

ive seen this

[whelljack]

3:27 scary and funny clowns too

[Yogizuna]

Very cool, my favorite circus movie!

[cesarjimenezanimator]

@MoviesHistory What about the rating?

[thatshot200611]

I loveeeeee this movie

[SweetBrwnSuga]

@thatshot200611 me too, i only saw it cause my auntie made me watch it.

[sockmonkeysrock]

my great uncle theodore st. bernard helped to write that movie. i have the oscar in my house!

[theachtungtree]

@sockmonkeysrock nah....seriously?

[sockmonkeysrock]

@theachtungtree yeah seriously!!!!!

[theachtungtree]

@sockmonkeysrock gimme facts....hehe

[sockmonkeysrock]

@theachtungtree facts about what? he commited suicide cuz he thought he was a failure

[theachtungtree]

@sockmonkeysrock what?

[cesarjimenezanimator]

@sockmonkeysrock Incredible! You're lucky!

[mattybock]

holy crap that was lou jacobs! cool! such great clowns.

[ashie20]

One of my all time favorite movies of all time!