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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
From an English view
24 February 2005 - 3 out of 4 users found this review helpful.
An English guy of a 'certain age'. I am exploring the movies my sister took me to see at a very tender age. Train mad, I remembered the wreck; a huge steamer with streamlined coaches ramming the fancy Yankee car and then ploughing into the back of the stationary train. A model? Who cares, I still enjoy it. More though. I agree with am earlier comment about the 'raising of the top' sequence (the only black people in the whole film)and the street sequences as 'Americana' of a very precise period.
However from my perspective now, the animal sequences - especially, the elephants, sickens me.
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