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Billy Rose's Jumbo

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Billy Rose's Jumbo
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NR,2hrs 5min
Genres:
Action,Musical
Released:
January 1, 1962
Director:
Charles Walters
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante  ...more
Synopsis: Inasmuch as the spectacular Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Jumbo was written in 1935, this 1962 film version can't help but seem a little quaint. Still, the film features the original production's star Jimmy Durante, energetically recreating his stage role as circus owner Pop Wonder; it is Durante's bravura performance that saves the film from dullness. Threatened with foreclosure, Pop Wonder and his pretty daughter Kitty (Doris Day) put their fates in the hands of go-getter Sam ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
A throwback to an earlier, simpler era, Billy Rose's Jumbo is a moderately entertaining musical, the slender plot of which cannot support the elephantine proportions of its production. The spectacle is certainly impressive; a lot of money was spent on re-creating some marvelous circus acts and settings, but they only seem to point up how skimpy and dull the screenplay is. While the musical numbers ... Full Review
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Doris Day
Kitty Wonder
Stephen Boyd
Sam Rawlins
Jimmy Durante
Pop Wonder
Martha Raye
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