One of the world's greatest showmen, Cecil B. DeMille, produced and directed this splashy, colorful look at life under the big tent. This Academy Award winning film ("Best Picture" - 1952) blends drama with spectacle as the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus provides the settings and co-stars. DeMille tells a personal story of the behind-the-scenes circus life and still manages to get in lion tamer, circus flyers, acrobats, tightrope walkers, clowns, and an incredible train wreck. Features a strong cast headed by Betty Hutton. This is really a testament to the determination, skill and magic of circus life %u2014 and those who perform so well in the center ring. Celebration of the merging of the two greatest circuses in the world in 1881 (130 years ago). They became Barnum and Bailey Circus