The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show.
James Stewart plays Buttons, the mysterious clown who never takes off his make-up even between shows. There are subtle hints as to his motives and background: he wraps bandages around a trapeze bar in an expert manner; he holds a discreet conversation with a member of the audience who turns out to be his mother; and, when an acrobat has a nasty fall, a doctor expresses admiration for the way Buttons handles his injuries, the clown explaining that he used to be a pharmacist's mate. It turns out that he is in fact on the run from the law, in a way similar to that of Doctor Richard Kimble in the classic TV series The Fugitive, which was made some ten years later.
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