Funniest Show on Earth
Funniest Show on Earth is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring May Britt.
It is the first Italian film in 3D.
It was filmed with a three- dimensional shooting system patented by Carlo Ponti and Dino De Laurentiis and called" PoDelVision"( from the initials of their surnames), which prescribed the simultaneous use of more cameras and then the printing of two identical copies of films: one for the left eye and one for the right eye.
The film is an explicit parody of Cecil B. DeMille's" The Greatest Show on Earth".
Fritz Thiedemann
Fritz Thiedemann (3 March 1918 – 8 January 2000) was a German equestrian, considered to be one of the greatest show jumpers of his time.
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright( initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 Australian- American psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson.
Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, the film follows a young English schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Filmed on location in Broken Hill and Sydney," Wake in Fright" was an Australian- American co-production between NLT Productions and Westinghouse Broadcasting.
Alongside" Walkabout", it was one of two Australian films to be nominated for the Grand Prix du Festival at the 24th Cannes Film Festival.
Despite attracting positive reviews, the film was a commercial failure in Australia, in part due to minimal promotion by United Artists, as well as audiences being uncomfortable with its portrayal of outback life, including a controversial hunting scene involving real kangaroos being shot.
By the 1990s," Wake in Fright" had developed a cult reputation as Australia's great" lost film" because its master negative had gone missing, resulting in censored prints of degraded quality being used for its few television broadcasts and VHS releases.
After the original film and sound elements were rescued by editor Anthony Buckley in 2004, the film was digitally remastered and given a 2009 re-release at Cannes and in Australian theatres to widespread acclaim; it was issued commercially on DVD and Blu -ray later that year.
Praised by critics for its direction and performances," Wake in Fright" is now considered a pivotal film of the Australian New Wave and has earned a rare 100% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
A televised miniseries remake of" Wake in Fright" premiered in 2017.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker.
Between 1914 and 1958, he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films.
He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer- director in film history.
His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship.
His silent films were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
De Mille began his career as a stage actor in 1900.
He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville producer.
DeMille's first film," The Squaw Man"( 1914), was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood.
Its interracial love story made it commercially successful and it first publicized Hollywood as the home of the U.S. film industry.
The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor.
His first biblical epic," The Ten Commandments"( 1923), was both a critical and commercial success; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty- five years.
De Mille directed" The King of Kings"( 1927), a biography of Jesus, which gained approval for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers.
" The Sign of the Cross"( 1932) is said to be the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique.
" Cleopatra"( 1934) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
After more than thirty years in film production, DeMille reached a pinnacle in his career with" Samson and Delilah"( 1949), a biblical epic which became the highest- grossing film of 1950.
Along with biblical and historical narratives, he also directed films oriented toward" neo-naturalism", which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature.
He received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama" The Greatest Show on Earth"( 1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
His last and best known film," The Ten Commandments"( 1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the eighth- highest- grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation.
In addition to his Best Picture Awards, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d' Or( posthumously) for" Union Pacific"( 1939), a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
He was the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was named in his honor.
DeMille's reputation as a filmmaker has grown over time and his work has influenced many other films and directors.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St John( 1906- 1956) was an American writer, actor and director of films, radio and theatre.
In 1953 he won a Best Motion Picture Story Oscar for 1952's" The Greatest Show on Earth".
He served in the army from 1942 to 1946.
He died in 1956 of self- inflicted stab wounds.
The Greatest Show on Earth (film)
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures.
Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum& Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze artists competing for the center ring, and Charlton Heston as the circus manager running the show.
James Stewart also stars in a supporting role as a mysterious clown who never removes his make- up, even between shows, while Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame also play supporting roles.
In addition to the film actors, the real Ringling Bros. and Barnum& Bailey's Circus' 1951 troupe appears in the film, with its complement of 1400 people, hundreds of animals, and 60 railroad cars of equipment and tents.
The actors learned their respective circus roles and participated in the acts.
The film's storyline is supported by lavish production values, actual circus acts, and documentary, behind- the- rings looks at the massive logistics effort which made big top circuses possible.
The film won two Academy Awards, those being for Best Picture and Best Story, and was nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Director, and Best Film Editing.
It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Men in Fright
Men in Fright is a 1938" Our Gang" short comedy film directed by George Sidney.
Produced and released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, it was the 172nd" Our Gang" short to be released.
Isaac Bruce
Isaac Isidore Bruce( born November 10, 1972) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League( NFL).
He was drafted by the St.Louis Rams in the second round of the 1994 NFL Draft.
He played college football for the University of Memphis.
He is remembered as one of the members of ” The Greatest Show on Turf ”.
An All- Pro and four- time Pro Bowl selection, Bruce amassed 15,208 receiving yards in his career( fifth all- time).
He played the first 14 years with the Rams and won a Super Bowl ring with the team in Super Bowl XXXIV over the Tennessee Titans.
He also played for the San Francisco 49ers.
During his time with the Rams, he was the leading wide receiver of “ The Greatest Show on Turf ”.
George Sidney
George Sidney (October 4, 1916May 5, 2002) was an American film director and film producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Question: Which film has the director born later, Men In Fright or The Greatest Show On Earth (Film)?
Answer: Men In Fright