The Big Show, the only feature-length motion picture produced by the Miller Brothers, is a behind-the-scenes melodrama set within their show. The story: Bill, a war veteran who has been defrauded by his brother, rescues Ruth, the elephant girl, and joins the company. Secretly engaged to Bill’s “bad brother” Norman—allegedly an oil millionaire—Ruth rebuffs her rescuer’s affection. Her elephant, however, knows a villain when he smells one and eventually gives Norman his just deserts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project in 2012.
George Terwilliger
Director
John Lowell
Bill
Evangeline Russell
Ruth Gordon
F. Serrano Keating
Norman Brackett
Jane Thomas
Marian Kearney
Joseph Miller
Col Jim Kearney
Dan Dix
Pedro
Alice Lecacheur
Fifi
Madi Blatherwick
Dolly
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