The Big Show (1961 film)

The Big Show is a 1961 DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope drama directed by James B. Clark, starring Esther Williams and Cliff Robertson. This is the third variation of Jerome Weidmans novel Ill Never Go There Any More. The other two are Broken Lance 1954 a western version starring Spencer Tracy, and House of Strangers 1949 set in the big city starring Edward G. Robinson.

Bruno Everhard Nehemiah Persoff is the rigid and uncompromising owner of a German traveling circus. His four sons and daughter all work for the circus, including as performers. Three of the boys, in particular Klaus Robert Vaughn, resent the favoritism Bruno shows one son, Josef Cliff Robertson.To curry his fathers favor, Klaus abandons his sweetheart, circus aerialist Carlotta Martinez Margia Dean, to instead marry Teresa Vizzini Renate Mannhardt, whose father operates an animal menagerie that Bruno would like to merge with as a result. Josef, meantime, has fallen in love with a wealthy American woman, Hillary Allen Esther Williams, who wants him to quit the circus and begin a new life. ........

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