The Big Show

Oct 15, 1926

1h 16m

★ 0.0

Overview

The Big Show, the only feature-length motion picture produced by the Miller Brothers, is a behind-the-scenes melodrama set within their show. The story: Bill, a war veteran who has been defrauded by his brother, rescues Ruth, the elephant girl, and joins the company. Secretly engaged to Bill’s “bad brother” Norman—allegedly an oil millionaire—Ruth rebuffs her rescuer’s affection. Her elephant, however, knows a villain when he smells one and eventually gives Norman his just deserts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project in 2012.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Bill

John Lowell

Ruth Gordon

Evangeline Russell

Norman Brackett

F. Serrano Keating

Marian Kearney

Jane Thomas

Col Jim Kearney

Joseph Miller

Pedro

Dan Dix

Fifi

Alice Lecacheur

Dolly

Madi Blatherwick

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