Billy Rose's Jumbo

1962

Action / Comedy / Musical / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 1847 1.8K

Top cast

Norman Leavitt as Eddie
Doris Day as Kitty Wonder
Richard LaMarr as Parade Spectator
Martha Raye as Lulu
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1.14 GB
1280*538
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 7 min
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2.35 GB
1904*800
English 5.1
NR
23.976 fps
2 hr 7 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moonspinner55 6 / 10

Doris Day is deceived in the Romance Dept. once again...

The usual circus fun: a determinedly old-fashioned big-top opus with animals, parades, high-wire attractions, and songs by Rodgers & Hart. Doris Day manages a struggling traveling circus in the early 1900s while pop Jimmy Durante gambles away their earnings (show-performer Martha Raye halfheartedly attempts to get Durante down the aisle--yeah, that'll cure him!). Ever-earnest Stephen Boyd shows up in need of a job, and quickly gets Day's heart racing, before it's revealed he's the son of their chief rival--and what he's really after is star-attraction Jumbo the Elephant. Good-looking hokum, a squeaky-clean backlot romp. Too bad screenwriter Sidney Sheldon, adapting the Broadway show with its book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, skimps on any colorful glimpses of the eccentric carny lifestyle (what drives these people so hard anyway?). In the 1960s, Day mainly concentrated on her series of popular bedroom comedies; this effort (her last musical) broke up the routine and she's delightful as always. The piqued direction is by Charles Walters, who has his work bolstered a bit by Busby Berkeley, overseeing the circus sequences. One Oscar nomination: Best Music Scoring, Adaptation or Treatment to George Stoll. Five Golden Globe nominations including Best Picture-Musical. Sheldon was a WGA nominee for Best Written American Musical. **1/2 from ****
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Reviewed by maughancannes-2 6 / 10

About 10 Years Too Late in Adaptation

The MGM musical circus had left Culver City a few years earlier by the time the studio decided to film this 1930s stage extravaganza. The result is bright and competent enough (and it retains most of the wonderful Rodgers & Hart songs), but ten years earlier the Arthur Freed Unit would have sharpened up the book, included a lot more dancing and had a superior leading man (Stephen Boyd is a disaster in this movie). Doris Day sings the standards very well, and - stealing the film - Jimmy Durante (who gives a glorious rendition of "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World") and Martha Raye are memorable in support.

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