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rufus_red4
Mar 08, 2015rufus_red4 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This film's strongest asset is the score delightfully sung by the cast and some impressive and unique staging. Nonetheless, despite the score by Rogers and Hart, a script by Ben Hecht and Sidney Sheldon, musical numbers staged my Busby Berkeley, produced by Joe Pasternak and starring the incomparable Doris Day as well the veterans Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye, the movie is an overstuffed, overproduced and overlong disappointment. The actors are way long in the tooth, though they have conviction and are not awful, it's just hard to accept them as circus people. Then there's the whole issue of elephant's in circus's, and you can add lions to that as well, when here in 2015 Barnum and Bailey just announced it would phase out elephants in 3 years, makes watching the pachyderm perform disturbing.