To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Betty Hutton | Holly | |
Cornel Wilde | The Great Sebastian | |
Charlton Heston | Brad Braden | |
Dorothy Lamour | Phyllis | |
Gloria Grahame | Angel | |
Henry Wilcoxon | FBI Agent Gregory | |
Lyle Bettger | Klaus | |
Lawrence Tierney | Mr. Henderson | |
Emmett Kelly | Emmett Kelly | |
Cucciola | Cucciola | |
Antoinette Concello | Antoinette Concello | |
John Ringling North | John Ringling North | |
Tuffy Genders | Tuffy Genders | |
John Kellogg | Harry | |
John Ridgely | Assistant Manager | |
Frank Wilcox | Circus Doctor | |
Robert Carson | Ringmaster | |
Lillian Albertson | Buttons' Mother | |
Julia Faye | Birdie | |
James Stewart | 'Buttons' A Clown | |
Lou Jacobs | Lou Jacobs | |
The Alzanas | The Alzanas | |
Trisco | Trisco | |
The Flying Artonys | The Flying Artonys | |
Lilo Juston | Lilo Juston |
Director | Cecil B. DeMille | |
Writer | Fredric M. Frank, Barré Lyndon, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett, Jack Gariss | |
Producer | Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon | |
Musician | Victor Young | |
Photography | George Barnes |