76 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

We are 76 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we go to the big top - that bastion of family fun, dazzling feats of human agility and... criminal clowns?  These are all part of The Greatest Show on Earth - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic (for lack of a better word) and the winner of the 25th Academy Awards. A movie about the circus should have a commensurately wacky plot, and this movie delivers in spades.  We get another back-to-back love triangle that features a young Charlton Heston in his breakout role; a character named Buttons the Clown played by Brainrot alumni Jimmy Stewart; gangsters; cavalcades; dogs riding horses - you name it.  That's the circus baby!  Such a chaotic movie is bound to bring the chaos out in us (and it does) - so how does that affect our thoughts on the film and its Best Picture legacy? In this episode you're gonna hear: How Cecil B. DeMille found his lead actor in the most 1950s of places What Hasbulla would have done if he was included in this movie The activities of the 25th episode Brainrot Reunion for our favorite film characters Drew giving an impassioned defense of the rating he gives this movie (good or bad?  Tune in to find out) Follow us @bestpicturebrainrotpodcast as we keep delving into Oscars history with a brainrot spin Letterboxd Adam - https://boxd.it/9fMt Alexis - https://boxd.it/I7k7 Sarah - https://boxd.it/6VQMl