Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Pop and Kitty Wonder are the owners of the Wonder Circus and because of Pop's addiction to gambling they are constantly in debt and the creditors are very close to foreclosing on them. Their main attraction is Jumbo, the elephant and it seems that their competitor, John Noble wants Jumbo and is luring away all of their acts leaving them with virtually nothing. Then all of a sudden a mysterious man named Sam Rawlins joins them as a wire walker and Kitty is taken with him, what they don't know is that he's Noble's son.
Direction Charles Walters
Cast Doris Day · Stephen Boyd · Jimmy Durante · Martha Raye · Dean Jagger · Joseph Waring · Lynn Wood · Charles Watts
Soundtrack George Stoll · Roger Edens · Alexander Courage · Leo Arnaud · Robert Franklyn · Conrad Salinger · Robert Van Eps
Screenplay Sidney Sheldon · Ben Hecht · Charles MacArthur
Cinematography William H. Daniels
Original title Billy Rose's Jumbo
4.7
138 votes (FilmAffinity)
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