The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)



Young Zoppe ridingthe horse
 A Cecil B de Mille spectacular about the circus industry. Although we are more sophisticated these days, a circus on this scale must have been a stupendous entertainment; some of the acrobatic feats, notwithstanding the possibility for camera trickery, are truly daring, or reckless. And the resources employed by the circus proprietor must have been huge.

One of the acts is announced as Alberto Zoppe, the world's smallest bareback rider. His skill is undoubted; for some reason he appears in a frilly pink tutu and a wig. The wig soon becomes "accidentally" dislodged to show us that he is really a boy ... although the forename Alberto is surely a giveaway.

HF February 2006



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