The Big Show

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.

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76 min

Cast

John Lowell

as Bill

Evangeline Russell

as Ruth Gordon

F. Serrano Keating

as Norman Brackett

Jane Thomas

as Marian Kearney

Joseph Miller

as Col Jim Kearney

Dan Dix

as Pedro

Alice Lecacheur

as Fifi

Madi Blatherwick

as Dolly

Director

George Terwilliger